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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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original singular was cliint, as illustratedby Pcpys in his famous diaiy under date of September 5. HHtH:Bought my wife a chint, that is a painted Indian calico, for to lineher study. The word is Hindoo. deri\ed from the Sanscrit cliitra,meaning many-coloured. JNIurrays great dictionary defines cliintzas (Originally, name of painted or stained calicoes imported fromIndia; now, cotton cloths fast printed with designs of flowers, etc.,generally uot less than five colours and usually glazed. While both the French and the English cloth prints of the seven-teenth and eighteentli centuries were imitations of the Orientalproduct, the process of making was entirely ditterent. In India thepatterns were painted or pencilled on, in the form of direct colours orresists, or mordants, while in France and England blocks of wood orflat 2)lates of cop))er were used—the wood blocks carved in relief, andthe copper-plates in intaglio like those that produce modern engraved3-22 /♦ :t^*.
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Plate I- HAXI)-PAI\TF,n COTTON OF THK SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FROM AMBER, INDIA Frimi the IJrooklvn Museum eoUcctinn 333 DECORATIVE TEXTILES visiting cards. The copper plates were used for printing on silk(Plate XXX), and for the finer and more intricate designs on linenor cotton. Both of these processes, though undoubtedly known and occa-sionally practised in China for centuries liefore, were fully devel-oped only in Europe, and in the eighteenth century, to imitatethe Oriental painted calicoes. The memory of this is still pre-served in the French word for wall papers (pa piers peints), as wellas in a phrase often used for printed cloths (toiles peintes). Clothswere, for the most part, jxdntcd in India and Persia and China; butin France and Enghuul and Germany they were printed from hloeliS,thus illustrating the tendency in Eiu-ope to substitute mechanicalprocesses whenever possible for the hand woi-k of Asia. Furthermore,if we classify the various arts according to their origin and deve

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