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 . rainedfirst himself and then his apprentices. All other tapestry revivalsimported workmen from the centre of tapestry production: TheGobelins and Mortlake from Flanders in the seventeenth century;Madrid, Antwerp and Petrograd from Beauvais in the eighteenthcentury; Windsor and Williamsbridge from Aubusson in the nine-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 . rainedfirst himself and then his apprentices. All other tapestry revivalsimported workmen from the centre of tapestry production: TheGobelins and Mortlake from Flanders in the seventeenth century;Madrid, Antwerp and Petrograd from Beauvais in the eighteenthcentury; Windsor and Williamsbridge from Aubusson in the nine-teenth century. But Morris did it with his own hands. He had aloom set up in his bedroom at Kelmscott House in Hammersmith, andin the early mornings of four months of the year 1879 spent no lessthan 516 hours at it. The method he studied out from an old Frenchofficial handbook of pre-Revolutionary days. Perhaps the best evi-dence of the successful co-operation of Morris and Burne-Jones is thatthe Holy Grail set of four was awarded a Grand Prize at the FrenchExposition of 1900, the only non-French tapestries ever so honoured. AMERICAN TAPESTRIES In 1893 the industry was established in America by the lateWilliam Baumgarten, and still nourishes at the splendidly equipped 239.
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