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The arts and crafts of older Spain (1907)

Williams, Leonard, b. 1871 · London : T.N. Foulis · leaf 210

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alamanquino,Nicholas Hernandez. A new tapestry-factory—that of Santa Barbara—was founded shortly afterwards in a buildingknown as the Casa del Abreviador. The firstdirector, engaged in 1720 by order oi~ Philip theFifth, was Jacob Van der Goten, a native ofAntwerp,1 who died in 1724, and was… … TEXTILE FABRICS at the factory by his sons, Francisco, Jacobo,Cornelius, and Adrian. These craftsmen workedwith basse lisse looms till 1729, in which year ahaute lisse loom was mounted by a Frenchman,Antoine Lenger. In 1730, when the court removed to Seville, atapestry-factory was established at…

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