Wood Planks and Oriental Rugs weren't the only floor coverings found in America's old houses. In fact, a rich array of floor treatments have been used--from brick, tile and linoleum to mats and floorcloths, from rag rugs to ingrain, embroidered and pile carpets. And, of course, Oriental rugs on wood floors. Finding just the right floor covering to furnish an old house or to create a period look in any building has always been a challenge. Now, Floor Coverings for Historic Buildings explains how to choose and buy the correct floor coverings used between 1750 and the 1930s, including where to order 475 reproductions described here in detail. This invaluable catalog, illustrated with 175 photographs, also provides a history of American floors,a glossary of floor covering terms, addresses for 82 suppliers (many of whom fill custom and special orders), a reading list and sources of help.

Floor Coverings for Historic Buildings

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Winkler, Gail Caskey

Von Rosenstiel, Helene

Antiques & Collectibles

wiley

A look at the way American Victorian houses were decorated during the nineteenth century provides information on how to recreate the same effects

Victorian Interior Decoration: American Interiors, 1830-1900

Moss, Roger W.

History

Henry Holt Co.

Offers guidelines for selecting, applying, and decorating with historically appropriate paint and trim colors for every style of nineteenth-century Victorian house

Victorian Exterior Decoration: How to Paint Your Nineteenth-Century American House Historically

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Here is an authoritative look at the way American Victorian houses were decorated in the 19th century, covering all aspects of interior design: floor coverings, woodwork, window treatments and draperies, walls and wallpaper, and ceilings. 225 pictures and drawings; 16-page color insert.

Victorian Interior Decoration: American Interiors : 1830-1900

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Victorian Exterior Decoration provides a foolproof system for choosing the colors that will best suit the particular style of any house.

Home Improvement & Design

Holt Paperbacks

The materials that decorate our homes and protect us from cold, light, and prying eyes reveal as well as conceal. Drapery and curtain designs tell the story of great shifts in home and work life that accompanied innovations in textile manufacturing technology and the fashion industry over the course of the nineteenth century.
Capricious Fancy chronicles the changes in fashionable curtain and drapery styles in the United States and Europe during the Industrial Revolution. This unique compilation contains hundreds of illustrations, most in full color, reproduced from more than one hundred rare pattern books, workroom manuals, trade catalogues, and examples of design literature selected from the collections of The Athenæum of Philadelphia, including the Samuel J. Dornsife Collection of The Victorian Society in America. Each design is annotated with a description of its source and significance. Gail Caskey Winkler's research confirms the mastery of French upholsterers in the art of draping windows, bedsteads, and doorways. The book follows the transmission of high styles from Paris to London to North America before the middle of the nineteenth century and the development of the retail home fashion business, including the mail-order trade. Even as wealth spread, disparity continued between the upper and middle classes in adopting the newest fashions. Meanwhile, the audience for interior fashion publications switched from male building professionals and artisans to female homemakers.
With 325 images and historical commentary from a leading educator and historic preservation practitioner, Capricious Fancy is a source of authentic inspiration for preservation professionals, interior designers, set designers, museum curators, and anyone with a passion for period décor.

Capricious Fancy: Draping and Curtaining the Historic Interior, 18-193

University of Pennsylvania Press

The Well-Appointed Bath: Authentic Plans and Fixtures from the 1900's (Landmark Reprint Series)

Science & Math

Technology

Natl Trust for Historic

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