. 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. head of all embroideries, however, stands the set of vest-ments and altar hangings in Vienna associated with the Order of theGolden Fleece that was founded in the first half of the fifteenthcentury by the Burgundian ruler of Flanders. Duke Phili]) the the identity of these embroideries there is not the sligh
. 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. head of all embroideries, however, stands the set of vest-ments and altar hangings in Vienna associated with the Order of theGolden Fleece that was founded in the first half of the fifteenthcentury by the Burgundian ruler of Flanders. Duke Phili]) the the identity of these embroideries there is not the slightestdoubt, as they were recorded in detail in the inventory of the treas-ury of the Golden Fleece made in 1477. I have selected for illus-tration the one that pictures Saint John the Baptist (Plate IV). Plate Yl illustrates two Florentine embroideries of the fifteenthcentury, part of a John the Baptist set, designed by the famouspainter Antonio del Pollaiuolo and still preserved in the Florencecathedral. The illustration makes clear the details of the technique,• and especially the way in which the horizontal threads are scene on the left shows the birth of John the Baptist; the oneon the right, the delivery of his head to Herodias. The illustration on 121.
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Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectlaceandlacemaking
