The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-29
Furniture Material Durable,
Yet Answers Demand for
Both Dignity and Refine
ment - Originally Hand
Woven.
By Motley Elliott

Probably because of its
innate appeal to the little touch
of the artist in every soul and
probably just because of its
utter durability and age-defy-
ing qualities, tapestry-covered
furniture will never go out of
style.
1t has withstood the wavering
from one decorative vogue to
another, but 1t seems that as long
as we have living rooms we shall
have tapestry-covered upholstered
furniture Of one sort or another. 1t
answers a demand for both dignity
and refinement.
Although the term tapestry is
often wrongly used and the tapestry
itself may be misplaced on a piece
of furniture to which it is not
suited, there is a piece and pattern
to suit every type of seating fur
niture and a color and design to
meet nearly every need. 1t would
textile on any two properly covered
pieces without danger of a clash be-
tween fabric and the furniture.
Should Study Furniture
Studying a few pieces Of well done
tapestried furniture will DEMONSTRATE
how unwise it is to arbitrarily select
a furniture covering simply because
a person admires it for it's own sake
and not for It's compatibility with the
bit of furniture it is to adorn or the
room it is to grace.
The term tapestry, when rightly
used is as truly the description of
a weave Of material as silk is the
name of a fibre spun from a cocoon,
says one authority on the history
of the fabric. He continues, in part;
Tapestry may be woven of any
fibre and in any pattern, by hand
or on a machine. 1t is the most
durable Of all weaves, because it's
warp and it's welt threads are com
pletely interlocked. 1t will not ravel
and moths destroy it with difficulty.
OF small decorative and primitive
tapestries many have survived from
ancient Peruvian and Coptic civili-
cations, some from ancient Greece
and Egypt. But the most famous
tapestries, those reproducing in tex
ture the masterpieces of famous
painters, are those tapestries devel-
oped in the Netherlands and north
ern France during the fourteenth,
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
These cost as much as $4,000
yard. They are all, Of course, hand
woven. But machinery can now pro-
duce the tapestry weave, thanks to
the invention of a famous French
man, jacquard, who about 100 years
ago, invented an attachment to the
loom. from which machine tapestries
are now called jacquard weaves.
ResOurceful Fabric
w nile the machlne product can
not equal in beauty and in durabil-
ity the best hand-woven tapestry,
any more than a autographed repro
duction of a famous painting can
equal the original, yet machine-wo-
ven tapestry for furniture upholstery
is perhaps the worlds most resource.
full fabric. being equal to any deco
rative requirement, and, II good ma
terials be employed in its construc-
ton, being equal to any fabric wo-
ven today and vastly superior to
many"
Famous old bits Of tapestried
furniture give us the ideal to which
to strive. Being hand-woven to fit
the. pieces they are used on. they
are, of course, exquisitely woven by
master weavers and designed by
artists. But in this day of remark
able reproductions of old master
pieces it is possible to possess at
reasonable prices, in view Of the
great durability of the fabric. ma
chine woven tapestries, which IL
intelligently chosen, fill the bill adj
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