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 . Plate IV—COTTON PRINTS OF THE SIXTH CENTURY A. D. FROM EGYPT At Achmin have been found two of the tiny wooden blocks from which such cloths were printed, one of them showing two peacocks facing a tree; the other, a spool with pattern on each end, 1 4/5 inches high with diameter of 1 3/5 inches. 326. Plate V—THIRTEENTH
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 . Plate IV—COTTON PRINTS OF THE SIXTH CENTURY A. D. FROM EGYPT At Achmin have been found two of the tiny wooden blocks from which such cloths were printed, one of them showing two peacocks facing a tree; the other, a spool with pattern on each end, 1 4/5 inches high with diameter of 1 3/5 inches. 326. Plate V—THIRTEENTH OR FOURTEENTH CENTURY PRINTED LINEN IN BLACK From Cologne
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