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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, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers

Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1928 · 1918 · Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company; Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks Company · 7 pictures

George Leland Hunter's 1918 illustrated reference on decorative textiles, published in Philadelphia and London by J. B. Lippincott and in Grand Rapids by the Dean-Hicks Company, was written for designers and interior decorators, covering furnishing fabrics, laces, embroideries, tapestries, wallpapers and leathers. Its plates show close-up fabric surfaces, lace panels and a tapestry rug, offering designers a reference for damask scrollwork, lace motifs and medallion-centred rug layouts.

Textile fabrics · Textile design · Lace and lace making · Embroidery · Wallpaper · Leatherwork · Interior decoration · Tapestry

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