. 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 II—SOFA COVERED W ITH AXCIKXT FLEMISH VEUIHHE TAPESTRY. III . TAPESTHY (< )\ I\(;SJliulc in America 308 TAPESTRY FURNITURE COVERINGS it will wear better on account of its more completely interlocked range of ^^ossible patterns is about the same. THE GOBELINS AND BEAUVAIS The
. 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 II—SOFA COVERED W ITH AXCIKXT FLEMISH VEUIHHE TAPESTRY. III . TAPESTHY (< )\ I\(;SJliulc in America 308 TAPESTRY FURNITURE COVERINGS it will wear better on account of its more completely interlocked range of ^^ossible patterns is about the same. THE GOBELINS AND BEAUVAIS The great development of tapestry furniture coverings took placein the eighteenth century at Beauvais, the Gobelins and was coincident with the development of furnitvu-e itself, particu-larly of chairs, and with the multiplication of smaller pieces of everyconceivable shajje for every conceivable use. During the Middle Ages,as in the Orient today, residences were very scantily furnished. Thechest was the piece de resisiance, with bed and dresser and chairs forthe master and the mistress, a trestle table and a cupboard for themain living room, and benches and stools for the lesser the sixteenth century, particularly in Italy, the nund)er ofchairs increased, whilst in both Italy and France two-story cabi
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