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 . that fledfrom Lucca during the political troubles there at the beginning ofthe fourteenth century. But we have literary evidence that the artof weaving cloths of silk and gold had already been practised inVenice for over half a century, which was, of course, to be expectedon account of the direct commercial relations o
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 . that fledfrom Lucca during the political troubles there at the beginning ofthe fourteenth century. But we have literary evidence that the artof weaving cloths of silk and gold had already been practised inVenice for over half a century, which was, of course, to be expectedon account of the direct commercial relations of Venice with Palermoand with Constantinople. However, it is for velvets that Venice wasespecially noted (Plate I), in the fourteenth century reproducingPersian designs so faithfully, with the same palmette motifs andscrolls of tulips, pinks, eglantines and jacinths, but with perhaps alittle less freedom and inspiration, that it is sometimes difficult totell them from the original. The Venetians also created a specialkind of velvet in which the designs rose in slight relief above theground, both in cut velvet. At the end of the fourteenth century,designs of Gothic ironwork and ornament derived from stained glasswindows began to appear in satin upon cut velvet ground. 39. X
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