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 . ecause executed in Egypt from the third to the eighth cen-turies. Such collections exist in the Metropolitan Museum of NewYork, and in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, as well as innumerous European museums. Most of the designs are Roman instyle and show birds, animals and human figures, vases, fruit, flowersand foliage
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 . ecause executed in Egypt from the third to the eighth cen-turies. Such collections exist in the Metropolitan Museum of NewYork, and in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, as well as innumerous European museums. Most of the designs are Roman instyle and show birds, animals and human figures, vases, fruit, flowersand foliage, besides geometrical and interlacing ornament. But mostof these are tapestry-figured, only a few of them having part of theornament outlined in embroidery. BYZANTINE ROMAN The most extraordinary example of Byzantine Roman embroid-ery that is still preserved is the dalmatic of Charlemagne in thesacristy of Saint Peters at Rome (Plate II). The ground is ofpurplish-blue satin. The garment is said to have been worn byCharlemagne when, vested as deacon, he sang the Gospel at high masson the day the Pope crowned him Emperor (Christmas Day, A. ). On the front is shownthe youthful Christ enthroned withsaints below and angels above; on the back, the Transfiguration. The 109.
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