. 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. o ^III of Chapter the original (Plate III of Chapter II), dating from the sixthcentury A. D., which was discovered in 1898 in the treasury of theChurch of Saint Cunibert in Cologne, and is now preserved in Berlin,is not a velvet but a damask enriched with gold. The figuresof the velvet reproduction are in gold a
. 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. o ^III of Chapter the original (Plate III of Chapter II), dating from the sixthcentury A. D., which was discovered in 1898 in the treasury of theChurch of Saint Cunibert in Cologne, and is now preserved in Berlin,is not a velvet but a damask enriched with gold. The figuresof the velvet reproduction are in gold and red-gold wefts on a redjaspe velvet ground, the redness of the red gold being produced bybringing more of the red warps to the surface as binders. TheByzantine original is described on pages 70 and 71 of Falkes Seiden-weberei. On dark blue ground, inside the wheels, under a date pakn,are two mounted huntsmen with drawn bows whose arrows have eachpierced two animals, a lion and a wild ass. Blossoms, eagles, huntingdogs, stags and hares fill the background. On the wide-spreadinglower branches of the palm tree are clusters of fruit with blossomsand leaves of various shapes. In the upper branches are birds. This modern velvet reproduction illustrates the same principle 79.
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