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 53
late IV), is a long band of silk adornedwith three tangent circles, each of which displays the Emperorcrowned and with a whip in each hand driving a chariot, the fourhorses of which rear and plunge in pairs to the right and to the left.A flying cherub on each side of the Emperor offers him a crown.… … m^mm. DAMASKS, BROCADES AND VELVETS present him with whip and crown, and two personages below precedethe quadriga with horns of plenty, from which they pour money uponan altar. Circus combats were also a favorite subject. A smallfragment of purple silk at the Cluny Museum shows, surrounded bya…
Embroidery · Tapestry · Textile fabrics · Lace and lace making · Wallpaper · Decoration and ornament
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