. 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. < H •a OhOh< 9 s < c s I. OEd O o < a HO o< Q ao EMBROIDERIES described in the Rook of Exodus, may all have been tapestry but it isprobable that most of them were embroidery. Among the ancient Greek textiles exhumed from Crimeangraves are both tapestries and embroideries now preserved in theHermitage at
. 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. < H •a OhOh< 9 s < c s I. OEd O o < a HO o< Q ao EMBROIDERIES described in the Rook of Exodus, may all have been tapestry but it isprobable that most of them were embroidery. Among the ancient Greek textiles exhumed from Crimeangraves are both tapestries and embroideries now preserved in theHermitage at Petrograd. One of the embroideries attributed to thefourth century B. C. is in coloured wools on wool, and shows a cavalierwith honeysuckle ornament. Another piece has a stem, and arrow-head leaves, richly and elegantly worked in gold. Martial, in the first century A. D., writes that the embroideriesof Babylon have been driven out of fashion by the tapestries ofEgypt (victn est pectinc NUiaco iaiii Jiabi/luiiis aciis). The commonRoman name for embroidering was painting with the needle (acupingere). Virgil uses it in speaking of the decoration of robes, andOvid describes it as an art taught by Minerva. Pliny says that thefirst mention of embroidered garments (pictas vestcs) is in Homer,and that the Phrygia
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