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Identifier: decorativetextil1918hunt (find matches)
Title: Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927
Subjects: Embroidery Tapestry Textile fabrics Lace and lace making Wallpaper Decoration and ornament
Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks company
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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een extraordinary. The improvement indesigns has also been extraordinary, and has been accompanied byequal improvement in processes of manufacture, especially in dye-ing and matching colours. The rampant tassels and fringes that oncewere admired as rich and elegant, have long since been removed fromthe sample lines and are illustrated on Plates IX and X merely toshow from what depths we have risen. The most numerous ancient trimmings that have survived arethose made in Egypt from the third to the tenth centuries, and calledCoptic, from the native name of the country. These Coptic trimmingsare borders and galloons, mostly figured in tapestry weave, made forapplication on garments, or woven as an integral part of them. Someof the garments are self-fringed and others have tapestry panelsframed in bands of long loops of linen wefts, which look more likemultiple bullion fringes than like the uncut velvet which they reallyare. Similar tapestry borders and galloons were also made in Amer-394
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■ Plate I—FRINGES DE LUXE395 *^&%m

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  • bookid:decorativetextil1918hunt
  • bookyear:1918
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Hunter__George_Leland__1867_1927
  • booksubject:Embroidery
  • booksubject:Tapestry
  • booksubject:Textile_fabrics
  • booksubject:Lace_and_lace_making
  • booksubject:Wallpaper
  • booksubject:Decoration_and_ornament
  • bookpublisher:Philadelphia_and_London__J__B__Lippincott_company
  • bookpublisher:_Grand_Rapids__The_Dean_Hicks_company
  • bookcontributor:Sterling_and_Francine_Clark_Art_Institute_Library
  • booksponsor:Federally_funded_with_LSTA_funds_through_the_Massachusetts_Board_of_Library_Commissioners
  • bookleafnumber:422
  • bookcollection:clarkartinstitutelibrary
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  • bookcollection:americana
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