Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . ed and there are green. The Spanish origin of carpets, as far as England is concerned,is suggested by the contempt with which the ancient historianMatthew Paris speaks of their importation by the Spanish ambas-sadors who in the thirteenth century arranged the marriage of Eleanorof Castile to Edward eldest son of Henry
Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . ed and there are green. The Spanish origin of carpets, as far as England is concerned,is suggested by the contempt with which the ancient historianMatthew Paris speaks of their importation by the Spanish ambas-sadors who in the thirteenth century arranged the marriage of Eleanorof Castile to Edward eldest son of Henry III. He says that whenEleanor arrived at Westminster she found the floors of her apart-ments carpeted after the fashion of her own country. This annoyedthe citizens of London, who ridiculed the Spanish luxury and empha-sised the fact that while the lodgings of the ambassadors at theTemple were hung with silk and tapestry, and even the floors coveredwith splendid cloths, their retinue was vulgar and disorderly and hadmostly mules instead of horses. In the fourteenth century, a fewcarpets were made at Ramsey in Huntingdonshire, but mainly forchurches. Whilst parlors were occasionally carpeted, the poets of theperiod sneer at them as tapets of Spayne laid down for pompe 140. ? Plate I—SAMPLE OF MODERN FRENCH SAVONNERIETo show colour, design and texture 141
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