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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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rinting in tlie foreground. The river inthe upper left corner, flowing past the factory, is the Bievre that alsosupjjlied the Gobelin works in Paris with good water. The threeworkmen with flails are beating and cleaning the cloth to jjrepare itfor j^rinting. The style of Jouy prints accommodated itself to the fashion ofthe hour. The earliest were mostly in red and distinctly Chinoiseries.A few years later come peasant scenes inspired by the paintings andtapestries of Teniers; and still later, allegorical and nni;hological sub-jects, and scenes from contemporary history, especially from thebeginning of the French He\()lution and from the American War ofIndependence. Many of the best designs of the later period wereexecuted for Oberkampf by Jean Baptiste Huet, so many of whosesketches are preserved in tlie Musee des Arts Decoratifs at Paris. MORRIS AND AVEARNE The great designer and maker of linen and cotton and worstedprints in the nineteenth century was William Morris (1834-1896), 343
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