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Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and (14596828698)
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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, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927
Subjects: Embroidery Tapestry Textile fabrics Lace and lace making Wallpaper Decoration and ornament
Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks company
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
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o in Chapter VII, is the bedspread signed M. R. 1809 in theColonial Room in the basement of the Metropolitan Museum. Aninteresting cross-stitch embroidered rug in the same room is the onemade in Northeastern New York about 1810, and lent to the museumby Miss Mygatt. It was made in strips a yard wide, which were thensewed together. The border has shell-bearing bands on each side ofa fret band, and the field consists of diagonal wavy bands of rosesintersecting one another at right angles, with plain squares betweenthe intersections. As for rag carpets and fibre rugs and grass rugs, everybodyknows them. They are all made on the same plan, big heavy weftswith slender cotton binders. Twenty years ago the rag carpet indus-try was an important one, and housewives all over the United Statesused to sew their rags into long strips to be Avoven into rugs at thelocal factory. Now rag carpets are mostly made out of new rags, asare the round and oval carpets sewed together out of pleated braids 171
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A rug is a piece of cloth, similar to a carpet, but it does not span the width of a room and is not attached to the floor. It is generally used as a floor covering, or as a decorative feature. Historically, there has been a variety of methods of rug making, including braiding, hooking, and weaving. These processes can be carried out by hand, using smaller tools like a latch hook, or using a weaving machine. Rag rugs are a historically notable and widespread form of hooked rug making. Rug hooking is both an art and a craft where rugs are made by pulling loops of yarn or fabric through a stiff woven base such as burlap, linen, or rug warp. The loops are pulled through the backing material by using a crochet-type hook mounted in a handle (usually wood) for leverage.
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