. 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—taim:stky c()\i;hix(;.s ,m.\i)i-; in ) i\ iiii: last HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. Ilalf \ll AlIiUSSOX TAPESTRY COVERINGSFOR SEAT, HACK AND ARMS OF SOFA ;51- TAPESTRY FURNITURE COVERINGS Beauvais. No wonder they have never lost their vogue. They are socharming in treatment, and so just in scale, tha
. 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—taim:stky c()\i;hix(;.s ,m.\i)i-; in ) i\ iiii: last HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. Ilalf \ll AlIiUSSOX TAPESTRY COVERINGSFOR SEAT, HACK AND ARMS OF SOFA ;51- TAPESTRY FURNITURE COVERINGS Beauvais. No wonder they have never lost their vogue. They are socharming in treatment, and so just in scale, that they turn chairs andsofas into framed pictures of exquisite texture, without detracting atall from their use value. These modern Aubusson tapestry coveringsin the stjIe of the French eighteenth centuiy, are usually sold in theUnited States on appro^jriate Louis XV and Louis XVI framesmade in America. The chair illustrated on Plate XI bears the name of ThomasThierry, the famous French historian, because the original set oftapestry covers was presented to him by the French government inai)preciation of his historical researches and publications. The coverswere first mounted about 1870 when the frames, in the style of theRegence, were designed and made. The original set, now in theLouvre, consists of a sofa and eight arm-chairs. Ancient tapestry coverings woven in the eigh
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