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 457
he work, and it is the heightof fashion in Rome, Naples and Bologna. Montaigne says that atRome rooms are ordinarily better furnished than in Paris, especiallyas the walls are hung with a great deal of gilt leather. Mission,travelling in Italy at the beginning of the eighteenth century, noticesthe… … ■r. ^ y ~ i y.
