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 448
en ones. Hut the designs show that tonkd and illuminatedleathers were the descendants rather than the ancestors of elaborateweaves, and were in fact at first an atteiiq)t to re])roduce the gloriesof gold damasks and l)rocades. ITnfortunately the monk Theophilus in tlie twelfth century didnot make… … rUite II—GEORGIAN LEATIIEU WITH RKI) I-T.OCK GROUND 119
