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 . d Classic Revival designs of theeighteenth century. RENAISSANCE BORDERS Especially do Renaissance tapestries differ from Gothic tapestriesas regards their borders. The borders of Gothic tapestries are eithernon-existent or narrow as in Late Gothic tapestries, which have flowerand fruit borders from five to six inches w
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 . d Classic Revival designs of theeighteenth century. RENAISSANCE BORDERS Especially do Renaissance tapestries differ from Gothic tapestriesas regards their borders. The borders of Gothic tapestries are eithernon-existent or narrow as in Late Gothic tapestries, which have flowerand fruit borders from five to six inches wide. The borders ofRenaissance tapestries start narrow but within a few years jump toten or even eighteen or twenty inches wide. Many of the EarlyRenaissance borders were from ten to twelve inches wide. The bordersfrom seventeen to twenty-two inches wide were inspired by the verticalwoven pilasters originated in Raphaels studio for the Acts of theApostles tapestries designed by Raphael for Pope Leo X to hangin the Sistine Chapel. These woven pilasters Raphaels favouritepupil, Giulio Romano, developed into the full borders for both sidesand bottom, that we see in the set of Acts of the Apostles tapestrieswoven for the Emperor Charles V and now in the Royal Spanish col-268. XH ao < W< si Q a S 4) s to
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