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Identifier: decorativetextil1918hunt
Title: Decorative textiles an illustrated book on coverings for furnishings, walls and floors, such as damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furnishings 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 business Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks firm
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds via the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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(3) Trellis (4) Honeysuckle Plate XIII—FAMOUS PAPERS BY WILLIAM MORRIS 379 DECORATIVE TEXTILES Dorado wall paper will have a excellent mental image of what I mean. The architecture pictured in the Boscoreale frescoes is notrealistic. In truth, a lot of it is impossible. The artist has madecolumns graceful at the expense of strength, and has piled structuralmasses where they would be theatrically successful. He was avowedlynot imitating nature but generating decoration. This is shown notonly by the fancifulness of the architecture, but also by the repetitionof scenes. Repetition is what separates decoration from the art thatimitates or interprets nature. Nature seldom repeats and neverexactly. Of ornament and pattern, repetition is the backbone. Inrepetition, as in most other factors, excess is easy—particularly if itis carried out by machine. Modern wall papers surround us with obtrusivestupidities repeated a thousand instances. No wonder that many of thewall paper producers bring out a new set

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