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An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth (1903)

Strange, Thomas Arthur · London, The author · leaf 139

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t Hampton Court Palace. Some further examples are given in theillustrations of bedsteads two pages further on. They were made of carved wood and gilt, or of plain wood andcovered either with cloth, the latter sometimes embroidered, with blue taffeta, with white satin pique, or, as inthe three… … Four illustrations of what the French call Lambrequinsare given here. These are the hanging bands of materialswhich are used to decorate the tops of windows and thetops of bedsteads. The third example is called a Lambre-quin galonne, on account of the banding. Galon was ageneral term for the many…

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