Romance in making tapestries
A 1922 trade booklet published by the La France Textile Co., describing how tapestry fabrics were made for interior decoration and sold to the trade and home buyers. The photographs show the factory workflow: men and women pattern-checking woven cloth on tables and frames, rolls of floral jacquard-style tapestry stacked on racks, and a worker tending a loom. A designer could take from them the dense, all-over floral repeat patterns typical of early twentieth-century upholstery and wall textiles, and the look of plain industrial workrooms of the period.
