. 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. Plate VI—Cope in Persian sixteenth century hriicMdeilvelvet, in the Metrn])oIitan Muscnm of Art. Plate XU — Ancient Persian \el\ct in tlic .Mctrii]iolitan .Muscnm of Art 36 DAMASKS, BROCADES AND VELVETS introduction of a wealth of motifs from the East, which, as they trav-elled West, lost their meaning and became forma
. 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. Plate VI—Cope in Persian sixteenth century hriicMdeilvelvet, in the Metrn])oIitan Muscnm of Art. Plate XU — Ancient Persian \el\ct in tlic .Mctrii]iolitan .Muscnm of Art 36 DAMASKS, BROCADES AND VELVETS introduction of a wealth of motifs from the East, which, as they trav-elled West, lost their meaning and became formal small repeat pat-terns instead of large, living ones; last, and most important of all, bymechanical improvements in the loom which made it easier to producepattern and harder to produce design. MOHAMMEDAN PERSIAX PATTERNS Noteworthy are the damasks and brocades and velvets ofMohammetlan Persia (Plate VIII) in the fifteenth and sixteenthcenturies, alive with personages and animals in the midst of luxiuiantflora. Especial fame attaches itself to the city of Kashan that hadbeen foimded by the wife of Caliph Harim-al-Raschid, Charlemagnesheroic Saracen eontemi)orary. The favorite flowers were the jacinth,the tulijj, the eglantine, the pink, and the peach blossom. The mannerof their expression and composition was a marvel of decorative stems describe gracefu
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