York; the staple industries are carpet and worsted manufacturing, the carpet works being the largest in the world; cotton, merinos, and damasks are also woven and dyed.
Cassel is noted for its gold and silver ware; damasks and other textiles are produced at Fulda, and at Hanau are flourishing iron-works; Marburg has a fine university.
Silk damasks for curtains and upholstery decoration are made in the silk-weaving centres.
These chambres de parade were very splendid, the beds raised on a dais, and hung with fine damasks and tapestries--tapestries thick with bullion fringes.
Silks, velvets, and damaskswere also used, and Queen Mary had a "beautiful chintz bed.
There are some very fine copies made of old needlework of different kinds and also of damasks and other stuffs.
They were upholstered in silks, brocades, velvets, damasks in flowered designs, edged with braid.
The Cheeta often appears in the pattern of silk damasks of the 13th and 14th centuries, both Asiatic and Italian.
Pliny says King Attalus invented the intertexture of cloth with gold; but the weaving of damasks of a variety of colours was perfected at Babylon, and thence they were called Babylonian.
There are also fine damasks made and worked with large flowers.
The damasks made at Valencia are extremely beautiful, and in that city they excel in the art of mixing silk and mohair, and produce mohair stuffs which appear to be superior to those of France and England.
In the better damasks the threads are smoother and finer in finish.
Occasionally the experienced shopper can pick up at a sale of odd-length or soiled damasks something which is really a good offering, particularly during the annual linen sale which falls in January.
It will carry about ten or twelve thousand pieces of silk damasks and taffetas of all shades, bought at different prices.
Simplicity of pattern naturally accords with a simple mode of production, and the means of producing pattern in damasks is certainly most simple.
Were I asked whether I approve of these damasks as wall coverings, I should say, "Certainly not.
They make gold into threads as is done in Milan, and weave raised designs of it on damasks and other silken fabrics.
The silky appearance of some damasks and other cotton fabrics is caused by mercerizing, a process of treating cotton in either fiber or fabric form with caustic alkali.
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