Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers (1918)
Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927 · Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company; Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks company · leaf 283
best qualities, and finallyin the eighteenth century came to be hardly more than a woven imita-tion of painting. In the fifteenth century, tapestry texture was sothoroughly understood and so much in vogue that one might rather saythat painting imitated tapestry than that tapestry imitated… … Plate VIII—ONE OF THE FAMOUS HARDWICKE HALL HUNTING TAPESTRIES Owned by the Duke of Devonshire.
Embroidery · Tapestry · Textile fabrics · Lace and lace making · Wallpaper · Decoration and ornament
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