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 53
I DAMASKS, BROCADES AND VELVETS in the fourth century speaks of their extraordinary abihty, sayingthat they rivalled jjainting and knew how to exjiress the figures ofall the animals by combination of warp and weft. But he wasscandalised to see depicted on the fabrics scenes of the New Testa-ment.…
