Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers (1918)
Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927 · Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company; Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks Company · leaf 136
embroider skins with figures of flowers and animals,supplementing the eft^ect with shells and feathers. Of the textiles of ancient Babylon and Assyria, no fragmentshave survived. But the Nineveh mural reliefs in the British Museumshow Assyrian robes with both geometrical and floral ornaments,… … < H •a OhOh< 9 s < c s I
