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 . damacileros were accustomed to imitate brocadeupon their leathers, employing beaten silver together with the coloursred, green, blue, black, white and carmine, applied in oils, or some-times (contrary to law) in tempera. The guadamacileros tanned thehides themselves, stamping the pattern from a wooden mould, andthen en
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 . damacileros were accustomed to imitate brocadeupon their leathers, employing beaten silver together with the coloursred, green, blue, black, white and carmine, applied in oils, or some-times (contrary to law) in tempera. The guadamacileros tanned thehides themselves, stamping the pattern from a wooden mould, andthen engraving on the leathers with chisels and punches. The hideswere those of rams. The spaces between the ornament were some-times left natural, but usually coloured red or blue. Gold in theplace of silver is said to have been first introduced between 1529 and1543. It was applied as follows: The guadamacileros smeared with oil the parts they wished tobe figured in raised or sunk relief, and then imposed the gold this they applied heated iron or copper moulds and stamped thepattern. The moulds required to be moderately hot, because if over-heated they burned the hide, and if not hot enough the gold was notpermanent. The superfluous gold was wiped away with lint. 421. Plate V—ANCIENT SPANISH LEATHER SHOWING LARGE POMEGRANATES FRAMED IN ZIGZAG HALO 422 TOOLED AND ILLUMINATED LEATHERS The sixteenth century Ordinances of Cordova tell us much aboutthe industry. They provided that every applicant for a license asquadamacilero must prove himself, in presence of the examiners,able to mix his colours and design with them; and to make a canopywith fringe, as well as a cushion of any size or style that weredemanded of him; nor shall he explain merely by word of mouththe making of the same, but make it with his very hands in what-soever house or place shall be appointed by the mayor and the over-seers of the craft aforesaid. It was also provided by these Ordinances that the pieces o
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