Identifier: decorativetextil00hunt (find matches)
Title: Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927
Subjects: Textile fabrics Textile design Lace and lace making Embroidery Wallpaper Leatherwork Interior decoration Tapestry
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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UECORATIVE TEXTILES cuoiidoro fonned an important bi-anch of the guild of painters, butduring the eighteenth centiu-y the number of shops dwindled to four. Long before Italy and Flanders and France and England beganto copy the Spanish guadamaciles, they had their own leather indus-tries, and the leather trunks, chests, cotters, cases, sheaths, bottles,saddles, chair seats and backs for the nobility were often made of cuirhouilli, stamped and tooled and painted in gold and polychrome, andof the most exquisite workmanship. Indeed, leathers in the JNIiddleAges had an importance relatively nuich greater than ever since, inspite of the wonderful development in the sixteenth century in Italyand the Netherlands, as well as in Spain, of gilded leathers of theguadamaci variety. Nor did the develojjment of tapestries in Franceand Flanders, in the fourteenth century, and the extraordinary vogueof tapestries during the fifteenth and sixteenth centiuies, seem at allto hinder the increasing use of

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