Heavy tinsnips will cut off the required sections of strapping. fabric coverings Fabric Description Printed linens Handblocked or machineprinted Cretonnes Unglazed, printed cotton fabrics Chintzes Of finer texture and more tightly woven than cretonne. Glazed chintz has stiff, varnishlike finish; semiglazed chintz is softer Toiles de Jouy Handblocked linen or cotton replicas of early French designs Warp (shadow) prints Woven from plain or mercerized cotton yarns upon which the design was printed prior to weaving; also woven from silk, linen, or rayon Damask Design woven into base yarn of silk, rayon, cotton, wool, linen, mohair or metallic thread or combinations Brocade Woven pattern is superimposed, in relief, on cotton, damask, satin, taffeta, and other weaves Brocatelle Usually a silk ground with a cotton filling in a heavy, crossribbed effect. May be of silk, cotton or wool Armures A small raised pattern with a pebbled or embossed effect Rep A corded or ribbed effect Denim A cotton fabric showing a twilled weave Tapestry A fabric into which has been woven a design whose perspective has been created by the manipulation of con trasting colors Velvet, velours Silk, cotton, rayon, linen, ramie, or wool fibers or pile that stand upright above the ground fabric. May be woven or shorn into patterns Plush Of longer pile than velvet, mohair plush is more satisfactory than silk, cotton, or wool plush Frieze Frizzed or curled plush Satin A sleek, smooth, and lustrous silk weaving in which either the filling or the warp covers the surface completely Sateen Woven the same as satin, except from cotton Embroidery Originally a handicraft, they are usually produced by machine Crewel work Replicas of sixteenth to eighteenth century English embroidery with colored yarns on a plain linen ground Needlepoint "Petit point" consists of fine stitches through one opening in the canvas ground to the next Leather Rugged, durable, and sanitary; favored in masculine clubs Imitation leather Less durable than genuine leather Vynolplastic materials Being waterrepellent, these fabricbacked materials are superseding imitation leather as their fabrication FURNITURE MAKING AND CABINET WORK in place so that the design will match the cushion. It can then be stitched with a curved needle through the burlap, being caught under the springs wherever possible. A layer of cotton is placed under the band and feathered off by gently tearing it even with the front edge. If the band is not to be tacked and gimped above a finished bottom rail, it can be stretched down and tacked under the concealed rail, if desired, thus eliminating a bottom band. Fig. 6.23. Attaching top and bottom bands. To attach the bottom band to the top band, a welt cord is sewed to the top edge of the bottom band, then tacked down above the tacks holding the lower edge of the top band. The chair or couch is then turned upside down and a thin layer of cotton laid across under the bottom band (optional).