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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n by a letter datedFebruary 26, 162G, from Rubens dunning M. Valaves for money dueon designs of the Story of Constantine. In the inventory made at thedeath of Planche (Planken). these are described as: Twelve smalldesigns painted in oil on wood, from the hand of Peter Paul Rubens,representing the story of Constantine. The designs were wovenagain and again, and there are several examples of each in the FrenchNational collection. Another set for which the Early Gobelins isfamous is the Story of Artemisia, originated to celebrate the widow-hood of Catherine de Medicis, wife of Henri II, but adapted andgiven new borders to comfort Marie de Medicis and Anne dAutriche,wives of Henri IV and Louis XIII, in their similar bereavements. After the death of Fran(,ois de la Planche. his son Raphael drewout his interest, and set up a rival establishment in the Faubourg-Saint Germain. Twenty years later another low-warji plant withFlemish weavers was established l)y Foucquet at IVIaincy, near his 287
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