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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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ework since tb.e war began. Embroidery is the art of ornamenting cloth and other materialswith the needle. But embroidery on net and cutwork belongs withlace. Embroidery was probably applied to skins almost as soon asneedle and thong were first employed to jdin ))ieces of skin togetherinto garments. The I^aplanders embroider their reindeer-skin cloth-ing with needle of reindeer bone, thread of reindeer sinew, andap2)lique of strips of hide. Among the primitive tribes of CentralAfrica the girls embroider skins with figures of flowers and animals,supplementing the eft^ect with shells and feathers. Of the textiles of ancient Babylon and Assyria, no fragmentshave survived. But the Nineveh mural reliefs in the British Museumshow Assyrian robes with both geometrical and floral ornaments, andthe famous relief now in the Eouvre from the ))alace of the Persianking. I^arius 1 (4.8.5-321 B. C), shows rol)es with diaper patterns.These ornaments, like those of the hangings of the Jewish tabernacle
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