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 347
shade, with line and colour both weak. Examples of verdure tapestries executed in England at theMortlake works near London in the last half of the seventeenthcentury, are the coverings of the Charles II sofa, chair and stool ofPlate VI which are to be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museumat South… … Plate XII—SCREEN PANELLED WITH ANCIENT BRUSSELS RENAISSANCE TAPESTRY 318 TAPESTRY FURNITURE COVERINGS AMERICAN INNOVATIONS With the tapestries frciin American looms, ilkistrated on PlatesIV and XIV, I am especially pleased. The_\- take their inspirationfrom Old English needlework, hut in such a way…
