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 175
was woven inSpain on order from Eiiigland. It bears the arms of the borough ofIpswich and of the family of Harbottle. Equally Spanish in style is the carpet in the Victoria and AlbertMuseum with the inscription: Feare God and Keep His Command-ments, made in the yeare 1603. It bears the arms of Sir… … X•/I ■3 <> O CARPETS AND RUGS London, of the conference at Old Somerset House in 1604, of a num-ber of Knglisli and Spanish plenipotentiaries. ENGLISH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Towards the end of the seventeenth century we begin to getdefinite evidence of carjiet weaving in England. In 1701,…