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 . o enWQ XI 5o j H u HKH a (S3 ao X. z a E5 HQ % < C3W a P3O03 P3 W H< 0O X CO TOOLED AND ILLUMINATED LEATHERS Metropolitan Museum of Art. Plate V shows an ancient Spanishleather panel with zigzag halo and large pomegranate. Plate VIIIis a splendidly typical French leather of the Regence period. PlateIV is a Spanis
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 . o enWQ XI 5o j H u HKH a (S3 ao X. z a E5 HQ % < C3W a P3O03 P3 W H< 0O X CO TOOLED AND ILLUMINATED LEATHERS Metropolitan Museum of Art. Plate V shows an ancient Spanishleather panel with zigzag halo and large pomegranate. Plate VIIIis a splendidly typical French leather of the Regence period. PlateIV is a Spanish eighteenth century leather in gold and blue on IX is a screen composed of ancient Spanish leather picturesfrom Avignon. Plate X is an ancient Louis XVI painted leatherscreen, in six panels of four pictures each, now at Biltmore. Plate XIshows a modern portfolio with design from the back of an Italiancardinals chair, in gold leaf on antiqued calf. Plate XII showsleather edgings of the kind used today on bookshelves and XIII and XIV show two modern leather screens, one in Per-sian, the other in Louis XV design. The author is indebted for the illustrations of this chapter to Charles R. Yandell & Co. CHAPTER XXI WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DECORATIVE TEXTILES Books, All of Which Ar
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