French Renaissance weaving, embroidery and book covers, (1898). Fig 1: Silk weaving, late 17th century. Fig 2: Silk-weaving, mid 16th century. Fig 3: Embroidered carpet in the Musée du Louvre, 16th century. Figs 4 and 5: Corner-pieces of a book-cover made of red morocco (Henry III), [Henri III, 16th century?]. Fig 6: A book-cover from the beginning of the 17th century. Fig 7: The same from the close of the 16th century. Plate 64 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [ Batford, London, 1898]

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