. 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. ng in black the outline of the pattern that isto be coloured up later with the brush. He heads the chapter with:The way to execute jjaintings on cloth with the block, and beginsit with: Because to the art of the brush there still belong certainworks painted on linen cloth, which are good for boys and childrensrobes and
. 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. ng in black the outline of the pattern that isto be coloured up later with the brush. He heads the chapter with:The way to execute jjaintings on cloth with the block, and beginsit with: Because to the art of the brush there still belong certainworks painted on linen cloth, which are good for boys and childrensrobes and certain church pulpits, here is given the way to executethem. Also interesting are the directions for block printing gi\en in afifteenth century German manuscript preserved in the public libraryof Nuremberg and evidently based on much earlier treatises. Themanuscript was originally preserved in the Convent of Saint Catherinein Nuremberg, and in the sixteenth centm-y, as the dedication shows,was presented by the Prioress of the convent to one of the book is in three parts, the first dealing with church vestments,the third with stained glass and the second with the printing silverand gold and of wool and of all colours, and how one prints pictm-esof paper. 335. X — -3 ^ CHIXTZES AXD CRETONNES JOUY PRINTS In the last half of the eighteenth century, as soon as tlie govern-ment restrictions were removed, France (Plate XXV) (|iiicklyequalled and surpassed all that had been done before. The leader inthe new industry was the famous Philip Oberkampf, born in Ansbachin 1738. His father practised cloth printing and dyeing rather unsuc-cessfully in several parts of Germany, and finally settled down inAargau, Switzerland. The son was trained in his fathers businessand after having also had some experience with Kochlin and Dollfusat Miilhausen, in Alsace, went to Paris at the age of nineteen, liad him-self naturalised, and in 1758 or set up a small \vorkshop in thelittle
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