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 446
long precededwoven ones. But the designs show that tooled and illuminatedleathers were the descendants rather than the ancestors of elaborateweaves, and were in fact at first an attempt to reproduce the gloriesof gold damasks and brocades. Unfortunately the monk Theophilus in the twelfth century… … Plate II—GEORGIAN LEATHER WITH RED FLOCK GROUND 419
Embroidery · Tapestry · Textile fabrics · Lace and lace making · Wallpaper · Decoration and ornament
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