Identifier: decorativetextil00hunt (find matches)
Title: Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927
Subjects: Textile fabrics Textile design Lace and lace making Embroidery Wallpaper Leatherwork Interior decoration Tapestry
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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A-kAJAV/w FUNDAMENTAL AND MODERN WEAVES gold damask with coarse cotton wefts that do not come to tlie surfaceexcept m short fioats to outhne the satin figures on rep ground, bothof which are, of course, executed in silk warps. However, there arealso gold figures, executed in supijlementary wefts of gold whicli cometo the sm-face in plain weave and are toned only a little, but agreeably,by the slender red silk warps that tie them at intervals. The red ofthe rep ground is darkened l)ut enlivened by the twinkling throughof the black of the cotton wefts, and the red of the satin figures bythe twinkling through of the gold wefts. Plate IV is a lace .stripe ddiuask. with filet lace stripes thatalternate with damask stripes, the latter having rep figures on satinground, both jaspe and executed in fine warps of lilac silk. In thelace stripes there are also coarse cotton warps and wefts brought tothe surface and so tied with slender liinders as to simidate the squaremesh effect of filet lace,

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