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, by George Leland Hunter; with 580 illustrations, 27 plates in colour.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company; Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks Company, 1918.Description: xxii, 457, [1] p. illus. (part col.) 33 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • NK8804 .H8
Contents:
Damasks, brocades and velvets -- part I -- Damasks, brocades and velvets, part II -- Damasks, brocades and velvets, part III -- Fundamental and modern weaves -- Laces -- Embroideries -- Carpets and rugs -- Carpets and rugs -- Chinese and Bokhara rugs -- Caucasian and Turkish rugs -- Persian and Indian rugs -- Tapestries and their imitations -- Gothic tapestries -- Renaissance tapestries -- Gobelins, Beauvais, Mortlake tapestries -- Tapestry furniture coverings -- Chintzes and cretonnes -- Tooled and illuminated leathers -- Wall papers -- Drapery and furniture trimmings.
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"This limited edition has been printed from type and the type distributed."

"The material presented in the present volume constituted, for the most part, a series of articles which appeared in Good Furniture Magazine during the years 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1918."--Editor's note.

"Working bibliography of decorative textiles": p. 438-[447]

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Damasks, brocades and velvets -- part I -- Damasks, brocades and velvets, part II -- Damasks, brocades and velvets, part III -- Fundamental and modern weaves -- Laces -- Embroideries -- Carpets and rugs -- Carpets and rugs -- Chinese and Bokhara rugs -- Caucasian and Turkish rugs -- Persian and Indian rugs -- Tapestries and their imitations -- Gothic tapestries -- Renaissance tapestries -- Gobelins, Beauvais, Mortlake tapestries -- Tapestry furniture coverings -- Chintzes and cretonnes -- Tooled and illuminated leathers -- Wall papers -- Drapery and furniture trimmings.