Period furnishings; an encyclopedia of historic furniture, decorations and furnishings (1911)
Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935 · New York, Clifford & Lawton · leaf 193
rinters, whoin the late Seventeenth Century supplied all Europewith chintzes andcalicoes. There is nodoubt that colorp r i n ti n g wasknown to the earlyEgyptians ,Persians, andChinese. AncientMosul in the earlyChristian Era wasfamous for itsmuslins; and col-ored fabrics,printed, as well aspainted,… … J B HUET^ii^T nil Toile de Jouy, engraved Irom museum example. Century. In the Fourteenth Century printed linenswere made in Flanders. Painted cloths with stories or legends came intouse during the time of Henry IV, England, early inthe Fifteenth Century; some of them were intendeddoubtless as…
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