. 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 IX—RHKNISH SI XTKKXTH CKXTUKV PR I XT In black on white linen Plate X CHALICE COVER IX BLACK t)X WHITE LIXEN With 1. H. S. (Latin initials for Jesus Saviour of Men) and the date, 1606, Ciermany 398. Plate XI—EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PERSIAN PAINTED PANEL ON LINEN 34 X 51 Inches 329 DECORATIVE TEXTILES received them alr
. 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 IX—RHKNISH SI XTKKXTH CKXTUKV PR I XT In black on white linen Plate X CHALICE COVER IX BLACK t)X WHITE LIXEN With 1. H. S. (Latin initials for Jesus Saviour of Men) and the date, 1606, Ciermany 398. Plate XI—EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PERSIAN PAINTED PANEL ON LINEN 34 X 51 Inches 329 DECORATIVE TEXTILES received them already painted, selects them from one single colour andpaints while it boils. And the dyed cloths are firmer than if theywere not dyed. CHINTZES FROM INDIA Fifteen centuries later painted cloths (Plates I, II, XI, XII,XIII) were introduced into Europe from India l)y the several EastIndia companies. The first in the field were the Portuguese who dis-covered the way around the Cape of Good Hope in 1408, and thuscaptured much of the trade that had previously been handled by theVenetians and the Genoese via the Persian Gulf, Busra, Bagdad,Aleppo and Beyrout. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Brugeswas the distributing centre for northern Europe, succeeded in the lasthalf of the fifteenth by Antwerp, and towards the end of the sixteenthby Amsterdam. In the seventeenth centiu-y, with the organisation ofthe Dutch and London East India companies, and later, in KUi-t, ofth
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