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High-collared Linen Tucker: Shoes were open in back, with wide, slashed toes. Men had moustaches and beards and long hair, wore various brimmed hats, many with brooches and plumes, and carried swords.
A woman's gown consisted of a bodice sewn to a skirt and having separate, interchangeable sleeves. The bodice was first square with a wide square neck, often filled in with a pleated or fluted high-collared linen tucker; it later became more pointed and rose to a high collar over which appeared a fluted linen chemise collar. The funnel-shaped outer sleeves, often fur-lined, turned back to show contrasting narrow, puffed, and tied undersleeves. An overskirt was tucked up, or later opened in an inverted "V," to show a contrasting underskirt. From a chain at the waist hung purses, rosaries, mirrors, or pomanders —a fashion that long continued. Heads were covered with fitted lappeted hoods of heavy dark material edged with white folds or ruching. Thi costume lingers as the dress of playing-carc queens.From the invention of paper until the middle of the 19th century, rags and linen were the chief materials from which paper was made. Rags (in¬cluding cotton and linen threads, flax and hemp, raw cotton, and cotton linters) are still used in the manufacture of high-grade papers for (1) banknote and Security papers, (2) legal docu¬ments for permanent records, (3) certain tech¬nical papers, including tracing and reproduction papers, (4) lightweight special papers for Bibles and cigarettes, (5) high-grade stationery and letterheads, and (6) newspapers of highest permanence. Rag papers may vary in rag content from 100 to 25 per cent, the remaining percent¬age being wood pulp. The lower the rag content of a paper, the less it resembles an all-rag paper. See Also Oatmeal Linen:Stimulating yellow is good for rooms where you socialize and is an instant space reviver, but it loves to be loud. The trick to using it is to pick the palest of yellows, tone it down with some creams and whites, and then add a little warmth with a biscuit-coloured rug, floral and stripey cushions and curtains in tactile, oatmeal linen.Any Textile fiber may be used to weave tapestry. Wool has always been the most favored material because its soft springy quali lends itself best to covering the warps. Its abili to take dye is another factor in its favor. Tl earliest fragments of tapestry preserved fro Pharaonic times in Egypt were woven entire of linen; however, in early Christian times wo was almost exclusively used for the wefts, som times with linen, sometimes with woolen warp Linen, silk, and gold threads were also used ; wefts, though generally in combination with woe Early tapestries from Persia combine cottc with wool and the same is true of tapestries i pre-Columbian Peru.
On The Other Hand See Linen Rugs:Ghiordes or Turkish Sehne or Persian DIAGRAM SHOWING MANNER OF TYING KNOTS IN ORIENTAL RUGS. Fibers and materials. A great variety of materials is used in the making of Oriental rugs. Wool is the all-important Textile of the industry; cotton, the base and binder; hair and silk, the occasional materials. Hemp, jute, and linen Rugs are also used in their manufacture; but to be a real judge of rugs, one must be a judge of wools. Wool is a modified form of hair, distinguishable from it by its softness, curl, and elasticity, and by the mi¬croscopic overlapping scales of its surface. It is sometimes impossible to determine whether an aimal fiber is wool or hair, because the one by degrees merges into the other. Fine wool has as many as 2,800 scales to the inch. Poor wool has not more than 500. This makes a difference in Oriental Rugs in the absorption and retention of dye.Rag and braided rugs. The rag rug was the original Colonial home¬made rug. These were mostly made on a loom by farmers' wives. The materials consisted of old scraps of wool, cotton or linen rugs, which were cut on the bias into narrow strips, and sewed together, regardless of color, to form a long strand. Two or three of these strands were usually twisted to form a weft yarn that was woven in plain weave on a linen Rugs or cotton warp. The looms were narrow so that the finished strips had to be joined to make a wide rug. There was no pattern and the fabric was reversible. |
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