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
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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(-) Strawberry Thief, in bright colors (3J Brer Ralibit, in iiliic Phite XX\ III THREE BLOCK PRINT DESIGNS BY WIl.l.IA.M .MORRIS 350 CHINTZES AND CRETONNES circumference of the roller, which is usually 1.) or 18 inches. Therollers, which were anciently engraved by hand, are now etched ormilled. In the etching process an enlarged image of the design isthrown upon a zinc jjlate with an enlarging camera, and then paintedin the proper colours and the outline of each colour engraved byhand. Then the pantograph transfers and reduces the design fromthe zinc plate to the varnished surface of a copper roller in the formof tiny holes through which the etching acid reaches the copper andeats the design into the roller. In the milling jiroces.s the pattern isengraved by hand on a small, soft steel roller, which is then hardenedby plunging when red hot into cokl water. This is the die from whichthe mill is made. A soft steel roller is rotated against the die initilit receives the design //( relief

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