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Damasks : their origin & ornamentation (1920)

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Flower forms included the marguerite, snow-ball, poppy and rose. Fruits were occasionally used. Foliage forms were well represented by the oak, laurel, palm, olive, myrtle, ivy and vine. Both large patterned dam- asks and damasks with small detached figures, based on geometric arrangements, were… … Napoleon s insignia shows the outside of the imperial robe ornamented with bees [56}

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