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 35
i>i(crochcs); hence, brocade that is English for the Spanish form ofthe French hrochc (brocaded). AVhile broche really means the sameas brocade, it is connnonly applied to light-weight silks only, the termbrocade (French brocart) being reserved for brocaded damasks andother heavy silks of…
