Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . 628 THE SUCCESSION OF THE DEMOCliACT. caricature of ornament, though they seem to have satisfied thetaste of the day. One paper exhibited is spoken of as par-ticularly elegant and lad^dike. The carpets and woollen hangings of tliis date were moreaggressively ugly than the paper-hangings, more commonplace. 01 THE CRYSTAL FOUXTAIX.(litj pfrmis^hu of Messrs. F. <£? C. Oshi\ Eirmimjkahi.) in their at
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . 628 THE SUCCESSION OF THE DEMOCliACT. caricature of ornament, though they seem to have satisfied thetaste of the day. One paper exhibited is spoken of as par-ticularly elegant and lad^dike. The carpets and woollen hangings of tliis date were moreaggressively ugly than the paper-hangings, more commonplace. 01 THE CRYSTAL FOUXTAIX.(litj pfrmis^hu of Messrs. F. <£? C. Oshi\ Eirmimjkahi.) in their attempt to be startling and original. One of the require-ments of carpet-desigiring is that it should be Hat and quiet, andthe colours—however bright—rich and broken up, and some-times even set, mosaic-like, in dividing outlines of a contrast-ing colour. But the draughtsmen of the time had no idea offollowing this or any other sober principle: the convention ofdesign was meaningless to them, its laws misunderstood, the studyof nature a travesty. Black was a favourite background; on BECOBATIVE ART, ISiiO-IHSo. «29 it rose-wreaths and arabesques, in crude colours and heavilyshaded, started forward, striking the eye with an unpleasantfeclinw of unrest. The most costly shawls were all copies or im-provements in theFrench taste of theIndian pine-pattern,though sometimes theless pretentious webshad rather prettypatterns—plain cen-tres, with a narrowborder of traditionalEastern des
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