File:Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and (14598376198).jpg

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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ur scheme of thebed as a whole. Perhaps the most interesting, at any rate the most generous, useof tassels in this residence is in the room where they hang from trellisedcords to form the valance of the window draperies, which down belowthey tie back in pairs, whilst from the lighting fixtures of the ceilingthey depend beneath each candle and the centre. Amongst books on the subject of trimmings the most pretentiousare two portfolios published, one in Dresden, the other in Austria,and both illustrating the taste of twenty or thirty years ago. TheGerman one is entitled Posamenten fiir Mobel imd Dekorationen,and was jjublished by the Dresden Zeitschrift fiir Posamenten-Industrie. The Austrian one was published by S. O. Czeiger.Volume III of Emanuel Bochers Manuel des travaux a Iaiguilleis devoted to tassels (glands); and Volume IV to cords, braids andknots (cordcs, tresses, nwuds), with detailed description and illustra-tions of how to make them. The small collection of trimmings in the
Text Appearing After Image:
PLATE XII – BEDROOMS IN THE RESIDENCE OF JAMES DEERING, AT MIAMI, FLORIDA / Especial attention was paid to the trimmings, many of the details being originally designed for the purpose, notably the Chinese tassels (illustrated on Plate II) on the canopy of the Louis XVI Chinese room on the right. Architects: F. Burrall Hoffman, Jr., and Paul Chalfin
DRAPERY AND UPHOLSTERY TRIMMINGS Nuremberg Museum is listed in the eatalogue of Stichereien, spitzenund pozamentier-arbeiten. The article on La Passementerie, byP. Verneuil in Volume XXIII (1908) of the magazine Art atDecoration, treats the archaH)logy of the subject interestingly, andthen illustrates and describes ultra-modern trimmings. In theConnoisseur for 1909 there is a short article on Spanish trimmingsentitled Puntas and Passementeries. Macquoid, in his monumentalwork on English furniture, illustrates many gimps and fringes asthey appear in actual use on ancient chairs and couches, and, of course,the ilrapery portfolios of Lenoir and many others show trinmiings aspart of curtains, portieres and lambrequins. The author is indebted for Plates I to VIII and XII to Edward Maag; for Plates IXand X to S. O. Czeiger; for Plate XI to the Moraiit collection. CHAPTER XX TOOLED AND ILLUMINATP^D LEATHERS Texture is Latin for weave.

Note About Images