Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 333
strong influences of Saracenicdesign. From the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, and evenlater, Lucca in Tuscany, Genoa, Florence, and Venicewere celebrated for the manufacture of silken brocades andvelvets, which have been used for the dresses of priests,kings, and noblemen, as well as for… … Fig. 269.—Diaper in Velvet Brocade ; Italian ; Sixteenth Century. of the period contain many illustrations of these patternson the dresses of the figures and hangings of the chambers. TEXTILE FABRICS. 315 In France the silk weaving industry was first established
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