Art Deco Textiles

The book provides a spectacular window on the world of French Art Deco textiles, in hundreds of full-color photographs that bring to life an age when craftsmanship and industry worked side by side: Lyons silk and the first artificial fibers, carved wooden printing blocks and huge multiple-cylinder rotary presses, indigo and madder and aniline and alizarin dyes, tradition and progress. 316 illus., 304 in color. 356p.