. 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. XI IN GOLD LKAI DESIGNliejinKUicfd from the hack of an Italian cardinals chair 433 TOOLED AND ILLUMINATED LEATHERS gives some idea of the richness of ilhuiiiuated leather in France in thelast half of the sixteenth century. We find here gold and silver hang-ings on an orange ground, \\itli the queens
. 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. XI IN GOLD LKAI DESIGNliejinKUicfd from the hack of an Italian cardinals chair 433 TOOLED AND ILLUMINATED LEATHERS gives some idea of the richness of ilhuiiiuated leather in France in thelast half of the sixteenth century. We find here gold and silver hang-ings on an orange ground, \\itli the queens cipher; others with orangemountings, gilded or silvered, on a violet ground; others, again, sea-green, with mountings similar to the preceding, or else red. with goldand dove-colom-ed moimtings; or blue, with gold, silver and redmountings; not to speak of the many funeral hangings, in whichsilver figures rise against a black background. MAKING GILDED LJ^ATHERS IX FRANCE The only satisfactory treatise on the art of making gold and silverleathers was written by ]M. Fougeroux de Bondaroy, and publishedin 1762, as part of Volume XVII of the great Description dcs Artset Metiers, of the French Academy of Sciences. It has illustrationsof tools and processes and an excellent gl
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