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 . > C < CO .^^.?^iW**- _^ TCvJ &g£ ^ifi; j hic-:*kica^^^ v^ J f^Xi ?^K^^rj^ If ./:£ ; £1 J*?x, -IE ^9 ? . -?? - ^V~Jy~£!^^ $h± . ^^* ?* w y^ .... • . ^ - ,. ? ?. t -f -- ! 1 X i ? .^.j/^2 ? . V ii fcp*r . | : - ysq . D1O PC X. cfac T3 41 cC tfi 3 3 41 b .S 3 13 N « S DAMASKS, BROCADES AND VELVETS in the fourth c
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 . > C < CO .^^.?^iW**- _^ TCvJ &g£ ^ifi; j hic-:*kica^^^ v^ J f^Xi ?^K^^rj^ If ./:£ ; £1 J*?x, -IE ^9 ? . -?? - ^V~Jy~£!^^ $h± . ^^* ?* w y^ .... • . ^ - ,. ? ?. t -f -- ! 1 X i ? .^.j/^2 ? . V ii fcp*r . | : - ysq . D1O PC X. cfac T3 41 cC tfi 3 3 41 b .S 3 13 N « S DAMASKS, BROCADES AND VELVETS in the fourth century speaks of their extraordinary ability, sayingthat they rivalled painting and knew how to express the figures ofall the animals by combination of warp and weft. But he wasscandalised to see depicted on the fabrics scenes of the New Testa-ment. He was indignant at the frivolous and haughty persons whowore the gospel on their cloaks instead of carrying it in their hearts. Paul, the Silentiaire, in his poetic description of Santa Sophia—the famous cathedral built by Justinian, which still survives in Con-stantinople, having been transformed into a Mohammedan mosquewhen the Turks captured the city in 1453—makes it clear that thealtar hangings were not embroidered but woven, when he speaks oftheir ornamentation as not produced with the aid of the needle intro-duced laboriously by hands through the tissue, but with the bobbinthat constantly varies the size and color of the threads furnished byth
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