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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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nt thatChinese decoration is produced by the elimination of relief and shadow.Classic decoration by repetition and balance. Characteristic of thestyle of the Italian Renaissance but even more of those of the LouisXVI and Empire periods are diaper patterns with tiny repeats, thevery minuteness of which prevents the monotony from being irksomeor offensive. By the middle of the nineteenth century the development ofroller printing was producing in chintzes and wall papers the samediminution of motifs that the jacquard attachment was producing indamasks and brocades. Also, the cheaper methods of making paperand the poverty of the world caused by the Napoleonic wars favouredwall papers as compared with chintzes. Most significant of all, theblind and stupid adoration and imitation of ancient Classic had causedartists to neglect decorative art in their yearnings after the supposedlymiraculous mysteries of representative art. Finally came the voice of William Morris, crying in a decorative 383
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iImu- .w I nil; ,Ji .Mi;i. .mansion iaii;i! A iiindi-ni American hand-lilocUed rcprodiution of the niifient pajier tli.it adiirncd Ihc Guard Hooin cif llu-Juiiifl Mansiim, New York, at tlic tiinc wlicii Wasliington usi-d it as headquarters 384 WALL PAPERS desert. He worked himself witli the bol)))in and with the block, inorder to get close to the processes and the techniques appropriate tothe materials. He designed wall papers that are still justly in vogueand printed from the original blocks (Plates XII, XIII), andtogether with Walter Crane (Plates X, XIV), revivified wall paperdesign in hand-blocked papers so splendidly that the result wasapparent even in the machine papers. Fifteen years ago the wall paper industry in America was ina sad way, and justly. The patterns were mostly bad and badlyexecuted. Wall paper manufacturers and salesmen talked price sovociferously that quality was frequently overlooked. Xearly all ofthe so-called designers were mere manijjulators of jjattern and

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