Identifier: decorativetextil1918hunt (find matches)
Title: Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927
Subjects: Embroidery Tapestry Textile fabrics Lace and lace making Wallpaper Decoration and ornament
Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks company
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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■ Plate I—SAMPLE OF MODERN FRENCH SAVONNERIETo show colour, design and texture 141
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Plate II—SAVONNERIE RUG OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 142 CARPETS AND RUGS and pryde. A rare departure from custom is the bedroom men-tioned in the Story of Thebes, the floor of which was covered withcloth of gold. Only in the fifteenth century did carpets become gen-eral in the private rooms of the rich, and on the dais or throne plat-form of great halls. The main floor of great halls, outside this dais,still employed rushes or straw, or grass, often upon the soil itself,without wooden or tile flooring, and was appropriately called themarsh, because of its usually filthy condition. Of ancient Spanish pile carpets, one of the most remarkable isin the New York Metropolitan Museum lent by Mr. C. F. Williams.It bears three times repeated as a medallion in the field, the coat-of-arms of the Henriques family, hereditary admirals of Spain, whichexplains the four anchors. The border consists of two main bandswith a stripe outside. The inner band is covered with an allover lace-like repeat. Th

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