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 331
enover by the French Government, for which it now produces tapestryfurniture coverings on low-warp looms, whilst the Gobelins now con-fines itself to wall tapestries on high-warp looms. The City of Beauvaisis 55 miles north of Paris, and in times of peace visitors are welcomeat the works every week… … X u9 a, Z a o I GOBELINS, BEAUVAIS, MORTLAKE TAPESTRIES the royal edict of Henri IV was secured, and in August, 1619, SirFrancis Crane, the proprietor of the new industry, was granted thefees for the making of three haronets. The importation of Flemishweavers was secretly arranged for, and in 1620…
