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Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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r fur Kunstgewerbe 1875. Plate 118. The Tassel. 1. French ladys girdle, 12th century, (VioUet-le-Duc). 2—3. Tassels, Holbein, (Teirich). 4. Tassels, Turkish harness, 17th century, United collections,Carlsruhe. 5. Tassel, old standard. United collections, Carlsruhe. 6. Tassel, Tunisian pistol, United collections, Carlsruhe. 7. Leather tassel, ladys bag, German Renascence.8—10. Modern tassels, by Aug. Topfer, (Gewerbehalle). 11. Modern tassel, by A. Seder, Munich. The Fringe, and the Valence. (Plate 119.) If, at the end of a piece of material, the weft-threads (parallelto the end) be drawn-out, the remaining warp-threads will form asimple Fringe. If we give the end greater security, by knotting ortieing the threads together in tufts, we get the ordinary Fringe. TheFringe, however, is not always made of the material; it is oftenmanufactured independently, and sewed-on to the edge of the material.In this case the Fringe is combined with a woven heading-band (gimp). FREE ORNAMENTS. 189
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The Tassel. Plate 118. 190 The Fringe, the Valence, and the Lace Border. Richer tyi^es of Fringes may be produced either by variety ofi\\e edge, so that tufts of unequal lengths form rhythmically alternatinggroups (fig. 2), or by using several thicknesses of Fringe, lying onebehind the other, (fig. 4). The Fringe is always applied long, when a pendant terminationis required. In other cases as, for example, where the fringed ma-terial is to lie horizontally, like small Table-covers, Napkins, &c., it isadvisable to keep the fringe short. Fringes have been in use from the very earliest periods; but itis again the Orientals, and especially the Assyrians, who show a pre-ference for this form. Fringes occur perpetually in various nationalcostumes, and in the toilet of our modern ladies. The Renascence adopted the Fringe as a trimming for furniture,fiiid specially for chairs; although not always with true artistic feeling. The Valence is a hanging textile termination; the lower edge isor

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