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 IX—RHENISH SIXTEENTH CENTURYPRINT In black on white linen Plate X—CHALICE COVER IN BLACK ON WHITE LINEN With I. H. S. (Latin initials for Jesus Saviour of Men) and the date, 1006, Germany 328
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Plate XI—EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PERSIAN PAINTED PANEL ON LINEN 34 x 51 Inches 329 DECORATIVE TEXTILES received them already painted, selects them from one single colour andpaints while it boils. And the dyed cloths are firmer than if theywere not dyed. CHINTZES FROM INDIA Fifteen centuries later painted cloths (Plates I, II, XI, XII,XIII) were introduced into Europe from India by the several EastIndia companies. The first in the field were the Portuguese who dis-covered the way around the Cape of Good Hope in 1498, and thuscaptured much of the trade that had previously been handled by theVenetians and the Genoese via the Persian Gulf, Busra, Bagdad,Aleppo and Bey rout. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Brugeswas the distributing centre for northern Europe, succeeded in the lasthalf of the fifteenth by Antwerp, and towards the end of the sixteenthby Amsterdam. In the seventeenth century, with the organisation ofthe Dutch and London East India companies, and later, in 1664, ofthe

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