Main entry:

Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927, author.

Title & Author:

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 / by George Leland Hunter ; with 580 illustrations, 27 plates in colour.

Publication:

Philadelphia ; London : J.B. Lippincott Company ; Grand Rapids : The Dean-Hicks Company, 1918.
Grand Rapids, Mich. : Printed by The Dean-Hicks Company at the Good Furniture Magazine Press
©1918

Description:

xxii, 457 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm

Notes:
"This limited edition has been printed from type and the type distributed."--Half-title verso.
"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.
Editor's note by Henry W. Frohne.
Includes "Working bibliography of decorative textiles" (p. 438-[447]), index and glossary.
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.
In English.

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Subject:

Textile fabrics.
Textile design.
Lace and lace making.
Embroidery.
Wallpaper.
Leatherwork.
Interior decoration.
Tapestry.
Textiles
Interior Design and Furnishings
Textiles et tissus.
Textiles et tissus Dessins.
Broderie.
Papier peint.
Décoration intérieure.
Tapisserie.
broderie perse.
embroidering.
wallpapers.
tapestry (process)

Form/genre:

photoengravings (prints)
relief halftones (prints)
Photogravures.
Similigravures.

Added entries:

Frohne, Henry W., editor.
J.B. Lippincott Company, publisher.
Dean-Hicks Company, publisher, printer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 129458
Call No.: 3160
Status: Available