The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 72
mous with \aluable tapestry (Fig -i-^). These fabrics were generally worked in wool, and sometimes in flax andlinen ; but at the same period l^lorence and Venice, which had imported thisindustry from the East, wove tapestries wherein gold and silk were blencUd. An inventory, dated 21st January,… … Fig. 29.—Marriage of Louis XII. and Anne of Brittany, Tapestry in wool and silk, with a mixture of gold andsilver thread. Made in Flanders the end of the Fifteenth Century. (Lent by M. Achille Jubinal.) gives us an idea not only of the multiplicity of hangings and tapestries thatappertained to…
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