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 291
s is shown on Plate VIII. A particularly keen interest is attached to this set of four tap-estries for America, because of the fact that the late director of theMetropolitan Museum, Sir Purdon Clarke, first suggested that theybe re-assembled out of the fragments into which they had been cutfor use… … Plate XV—THE TRIUMPH OF THE VIRGINGothic tapestry in the Royal Sjianish collection 202 GOTHIC TAPESTRIES surface. This, of course, illustrates the fact that the backs of tapestriesfade less than the faces; indeed, tliey often fade not at all, beingshielded from the light. IEiVtE TAlESTRIES Plate XI…
