. 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. ;0 ;\-Ji I ?*. ^ --^^. Plate XXI—Italian lain])as in live colours,modern rei)roduction Plate XXII—Typical French directoire lampas in twotones of grey on blue ground, modern reproduction 44 DAMASKS, BROCADES AND VELVETS displaced the animals. Gradually the \ase assumed elegant and elab-orate Renaissance forms from w
. 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. ;0 ;\-Ji I ?*. ^ --^^. Plate XXI—Italian lain])as in live colours,modern rei)roduction Plate XXII—Typical French directoire lampas in twotones of grey on blue ground, modern reproduction 44 DAMASKS, BROCADES AND VELVETS displaced the animals. Gradually the \ase assumed elegant and elab-orate Renaissance forms from which grew blossoms and flowers asthey previously did from the pomegranate (Plate X). Patterns tendto become smaller (Plate XIV of Chapter II), as the long Gothicrobes are replaced by the shorter garments of the of vases we sometimes find palmettes treated in similarfashion, or small clusters of flowers loosely framed with blossomsand leaves. Colours become less brilliant and, like the patterns, lessassertive. The grotes(iuc ornament of ancient Rome is copied andused as a source for motifs antl method. Architectural forms andframes become Renaissance (Plate I of Chapter XVI) instead ofGothic or Oriental in style, and the vertical effects of Gothic aresupplanted by the horiz
Size: 2788px × 896px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectlaceandlacemaking
