Decorative Textiles
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1918. limited (with no limitation given). Hardbound. Blue publishers illustrated cloth with embossed design and title on fron cover. xxii, 458 pp. with 27 color and 553 bw plates and illustration. Good+ inner front hinge weak and cracking, light soiling to FFEP, edges untrimmed overall a very decent reading copy a red dot sticker on the base of the spine could be removed with care, a wee bit thread-bare in one area alone the right edge of the front cover. Item #36445
"This limited edition has been printed from type and the type distributed."/ "The material presented in the present volume constituted, for the most part, a series of articles which appeared in Good Furniture Magazine during the years 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1918"--Editor's note./ Includes "Working bibliography of decorative textiles" (p. 438-[447]) , index and glossary. Contents as follows: Damasks, brocades and velvets -- part I -- Damasks, brocades and velvets, part II -- Damasks, brocades and velvets, part III -- Fundamental and modern weaves -- Laces -- Embroideries -- Carpets and rugs -- Carpets and rugs -- Chinese and Bokhara rugs -- Caucasian and Turkish rugs -- Persian and Indian rugs -- Tapestries and their imitations -- Gothic tapestries -- Renaissance tapestries -- Gobelins, Beauvais, Mortlake tapestries -- Tapestry furniture coverings -- Chintzes and cretonnes -- Tooled and illuminated leathers -- Wall papers -- Drapery and furniture trimmings.
OCLC: 339212
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