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Identifier: decorativetextil00hunt (find matches)
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
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as embellished by conventional dragons.During the last half of the seventeenth century, scrolls began toreplace the straight lines, and these in tin-n were replaced in theeighteenth century by naturalistic leaves and flowers. Often on the field of Chinese rugs appear Chinese lions or liondogs jjlaying with a ball. Sometimes all the twelve animals whichstand in China for the signs of the Zodiac are introduced in the field,or border of rugs. These signs are: the ox, the tiger, the hare, thedragon, the serpent, the horse, the goat, the monkey, the cat, the dog,the bear, the rat. Important to the student and the dealer in Chinese rugs is aknowledge of Chinese coloin- symbolism, black standing for water,mercury, iron, etc.; green for wood, tin, etc. Colours Elentciitx Metals P la lilt n Dircrtiniix Seanoiis Bliu-k Water Iron Mercury Xortli Winter tireeii Wood Tin Jupiter South Spring Red Fire Copper Mars Kast Summer White Metal Silver ^enus West Autumn Yellow Earth Gold Saturn ;\liddle 177
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•r ^ *-- CHINESE AND BOKHARA RUGS The warp of Chinese rugs is iihnost always of cotton. Conse-quently the end selvages and the fringes are unimportant, as cottondoes not make interesting selvages or fringes. Of course some of thevery finest rugs, those with woollen as well as those with silk pile havea silk warp. In Chinese rugs of the seventeenth century, the spinningof the wool is less regular, the texture apt to he coarser, the colourtones apt to he darker than in those made since. Especially frequentare dark hrowns that have often rotted away the wool hecause of thedestructive quality of the dye. The designs of seventeenth centuryChinese rugs are more geometrical and rectilinear than those of theeighteenth centurv. Thev are also distinctly archaic, especially thoseof the first half of the century, belonging to the Ming period. In the last half of the seventeenth century the influence ofPersian rugs begins to make itself apparent in Chinese rugs. Alsoin the last half of the seven

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  • bookyear:1918
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Hunter__George_Leland__1867_1927
  • booksubject:Textile_fabrics
  • booksubject:Textile_design
  • booksubject:Lace_and_lace_making
  • booksubject:Embroidery
  • booksubject:Wallpaper
  • booksubject:Leatherwork
  • booksubject:Interior_decoration
  • booksubject:Tapestry
  • bookpublisher:Philadelphia__London__J__B__Lippincott_Company
  • bookpublisher:_Grand_Rapids__The_Dean_Hicks_Company
  • bookcontributor:Wellesley_College_Library
  • booksponsor:Wellesley_College_Library
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