. 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. a Sicilian one that iscatalogued by Madame Errera as Xo. 91 and that dates from thefifteenth century. A similar example is reproduced in colour onPlate 297 of his Gewebe-Sammlung des K. Kunstgewerbe jNIuseumsBerlin by Lessing, who describes it as Spanish about 1500. Fisch-bach calls it Italian or Spanish of the thirtee
. 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. a Sicilian one that iscatalogued by Madame Errera as Xo. 91 and that dates from thefifteenth century. A similar example is reproduced in colour onPlate 297 of his Gewebe-Sammlung des K. Kunstgewerbe jNIuseumsBerlin by Lessing, who describes it as Spanish about 1500. Fisch-bach calls it Italian or Spanish of the thirteenth or fourteenthcenturies; and the Hambiu-g JNIuseum, Spanish of the fourteenthor fifteenth centuries. The differences of attribution indicate whatis true, that much expert work still has to be done on the textile col-lections of our various nmseums, and that it will be an herculeantask to eliminate errors based on the ignorance of the nineteenthcentury. Plate XV is classed by the makers as a silk tapestry and willserve as a definition of that term. It has a surface of coarse silkwefts tied with slender warp binders, and cotton warps buriedbeneath the surface. In appearance it resembles jacqiiard verduretapestry (see Chapter XII), being comparatively flat with merely 9.
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