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 . Plate III—GOTHIC ANTEPENDIUM (ALTAR FRONTAL) PRINTED IN BLACK FROM NINE BLOCKS Showing Christ, Saint Barbara, Saint George, Mary and John, with Gothic inscription and ornamental border. Tyrolian of the fifteenth century. Plate IV—COTTON PRINTS OF THE SIXTH CENTURY A. D. FROM EGYPT At Achmin have been found two of the t
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 . Plate III—GOTHIC ANTEPENDIUM (ALTAR FRONTAL) PRINTED IN BLACK FROM NINE BLOCKS Showing Christ, Saint Barbara, Saint George, Mary and John, with Gothic inscription and ornamental border. Tyrolian of the fifteenth century. Plate IV—COTTON PRINTS OF THE SIXTH CENTURY A. D. FROM EGYPT At Achmin have been found two of the tiny wooden blocks from which such cloths were printed, one of them showing two peacocks facing a tree; the other, a spool with pattern on each end, 1 4/5 inches high with diameter of 1 3/5 inches. 326
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