Don Mills, Ont. : Southam-MacLean Publications · leaf 76
it was at the ex- pense of being shorn of its harmoniously beautifulhandles of brass, while clumsy vine-leaf wooden pullswere substituted. When, after some seven hundred and fifty yearsof effort, the Moors were finally driven out of Gran-ada, the conquerors whitewashed the beautifully dec-orated… … Fig. 2. ? / fact that the Moors never could be satisfied with merewhite as a mural decoration. In due time the white-wash was removed, and then was revealed the mostbeautiful decoration in red, blue, green and gold it hasbeen the lot of human eye to behold. Much the samewas it in New England in the…
Furniture industry and trade · Woodworking industries
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