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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, 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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ic of twill or satin weave in solid color, or it may desig-nate a woven fabric, even one that has been figured on the loom, bycontrast with one that has been printed. In this chapter it will beused in the first sense only. The fundamental weaves are plain, twill and satin. Given anunderstanding of these, and one has already gone far towards thecomprehension of complicated double-cloth and jacquard effects.Without them, one is perplexed and bewildered by comparativelysimple webs like those of taffeta, rep and denim. At this point it may be well to emphasise the fact that in weav-ing, the warp threads are mounted on rollers and stretched the longway of the loom, whilst the weft threads (also called filling or tram)are thrown in the shuttle across the loom from right to left, and backagain; also that a prerequisite to weaving is a loom, and that withouta loom there can be no weaving; also, that a loom in its simplest formis merely a frame to hold the warp threads taut and parallel and 54
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Plate I—EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VENETIAN CARVED AND PAINTED CHAIR,UPHOLSTERED IN STRIPED SATIN DECORATIVE TEXTILES enable the warps to be moved, some up and some down, so as to leavethe opening or shed through which the bobbin or shuttle passes. In plain weave there is complete alternation of warps and wefts;that is to say on the way out, across the loom from right to left, theshed through which the bobbin passes has the odd threads below, andthe even threads above; whilst the shed through which the bobbinpasses on the way back has the even threads below and the odd threadsabove. This shifting of sheds in plain weave is produced most simplyon the high-warp tapestry loom, where the cross-stave holds the warpsopen in the first position, except when the lisses or looped stringsattached to the odd warps are pulled by the weavers left hand so as tobring the warps into the second position. On the low-warp tapestryloom, the odd warps are threaded through a harness that is movedup and down by a

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