Tapestries, their origin, history and renaissance (1912)
Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927 · New York, John Lane company; [etc., etc.] · leaf 398
weaving atits best, i.e., as practised in France and French-Flemish Burgundy in the XV century, Flandersbeing then a part of Burgundy. They are notmarred by any attempt at photographic perspective.Personages and florals alike are in strong silhouettewith flat simple colours to mark contrasts.… … 378 TAPESTRIES—THEIR ORIGIN Study the line work of these panels carefully.The texture is a coarse, flat rep with only twelvehorizontal ribs to the inch. These give a linedbackground against which the lines of the personagesand rose branches—predominatingly vertical—standout boldly. Note also the…
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