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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are illegible. The handle and elaborate lock are of copper, andcopper bars attach the leather that is engraved in concentric rinceauxof delicate form. Amongst interesting instances of the early use of leather ininterior furnishing are the following: In 1380, Charles V of Francegave to his brother, the Duke of Orleans, a house that contained twenty-four pieces of vermilion leather of Aragon, and carpets of Aragonleather, to put on the floor in summer. In 1416, the Duke of Berryhad a room of red leather, adorned with coats-of-arms; and QueenIsabella of Bavaria had leather carpets to match the summer hangingsof one of her rooms. In 1496, Jehan Garnier, a saddler of Tours, hadthe sum of four livres, fifteen sous tournoys, granted to him for alarge white ox-skin, delivered and consigned by him to a painterwhom the king Charles VIII had sent for from Italy, whom the queenhad ordered to make and paint the hangings of her bed. The inventory of Catherine de Medicis, published byM.Bonnaffe, 431
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Plate XI—PORTFOLIO IN GOLD LEAF DESIGNReproduced from the back of an Italian cardinals chair 432 TOOLED AND ILLUMINATED LEATHERS gives some idea of the richness of illuminated leather in France in thelast half of the sixteenth century. We find here gold and silver hang-ings on an orange ground, with the queens cipher; others with orangemountings, gilded or silvered, on a violet ground; others, again, sea-green, with mountings similar to the preceding, or else red, with goldand dove-coloured mountings; or blue, with gold, silver and redmountings; not to speak of the many funeral hangings, in whichsilver figures rise against a black background. MAKING GILDED LEATHERS IN FRANCE The only satisfactory treatise on the art of making gold and silverleathers was written by M. Fougeroux de Bondaroy, and publishedin 1762, as part of Volume XVII of the great Description des Artset Metiers, of the French Academy of Sciences. It has illustrationsof tools and processes and an excellent glossary of

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