Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers (1918)
Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927 · Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company · leaf 263
and with luminous grounds, possessing an excellence peculiarto themselves, but none the less admirable because unlike the productof Gobelin, Beauvais and Flemish looms. The Aubusson makers hadbeen authorised in 1665 to use the title Royal Manufactory, andan ordinance of 1732 provided that their… … s o o <0 <u CD « J3 fe .£P o S '' CO p .Q 0. -i— 3 TAPESTRIES AXD THEIR IMITATIONS It is one of a set of five tapestries, complete with tapestry rug andfurniture coverings, made in the last half of the eighteenth centuryto decorate the room in Greece where they hung for over a centuryuntil recently…
Embroidery · Tapestry · Textile fabrics · Lace and lace making · Wallpaper · Decoration and ornament
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