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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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l 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 l)een printed. In this chapter it will beused in the first sense only. The fundamental weaves are plain, txvill and satin. Given anunderstanding of these, and one has already gone far towards thecomjjrehension of com))licated double-cloth and jaccpiard 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 strctclicd the longway of the loom, whilst the weft threads (also called jillinc/ or tram )are tlirutcn 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 sim))lest formis merely a frame to hold the warp threads taut and parallel and5i
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Plato I—KIC.IITKKNTH CF.XTUUV VKXETIAN CAKVEU AND FAIXTKD CHAIR,UPHOLSTKRED IX STRIPED SATIN DECORATIVE TEXTILES enable the warps to lie iiioved. some ii)) and some down, so as to leavethe ojJening or .sited through whicli the hohl)in or shuttle passes. In plain tceave there is eomplete alternation of warps and wefts;that is to say on the way out, across the loom from right to left, theshed through Mhich the bobbin ))asses has the odd threads below, andthe even threads above; whilst the shed through whieh 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, exce))t when the lisses or looped stringsattached to the odd waips are pulled by the Aveavers 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 moved

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