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 439
two colours of velvet, with the galloonbetween. Gold fringes weie frequently used in great houses. Duringthe Queen Anne period the movable upholstered seat was sunk, andtherefore nails, galloons and braids became unnecessary features. In1756 Mrs. Delany writes that Lady Hillsborough has a very…
