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 (1900)
Strange, Thomas Arthur · London : McCorquodale, New York, Scribner · leaf 171
. Further, where the early weavers had contented themselves with nineteencolours, the eighteenth-century weavers had an assortment of a thousand colours, each sub-divided intotwelve shades from dark to light. The result was. that after a time some of the more delicate hues fadedaway altogether,…
Decoration and ornament · Furniture · Interior decoration
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