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 . tries, being strictest in Moorish Spain. The same condition prevailed in Christian countries. Certainlythe making of images and pictures of persons and animals is pro-hibited definitely enough in the Jewish and Christian Ten Command-ments, yet sculpture and painting do not on that account suffergreatly in Christian cou
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 . tries, being strictest in Moorish Spain. The same condition prevailed in Christian countries. Certainlythe making of images and pictures of persons and animals is pro-hibited definitely enough in the Jewish and Christian Ten Command-ments, yet sculpture and painting do not on that account suffergreatly in Christian countries, although animal forms have beenbanished from most European woven fabrics (except tapestries).Protestant churches admit pictures into stained glass only, and thatgrudgingly and usually with little art. Undoubtedly the religious prohibition had an important influencenot only in the iconoclastic movements of the Christian Empire of theEast and the West (the Byzantine Empire and that of Charlemagne)in the eighth century, but also in the Mohammedan world at variousperiods. Moreover, the religious influence against woven pictures insilk was powerfully supplemented by other influences—by inability toweave figures that were both representative and decorative; by the 35. Plate VI—Cope in Persian sixteenth century brocadedvelvet, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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