. 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. he last halfof the eighteenth century, and the greatest tapestries of the future,as of the past, will be those woven in the texture of the first (piarterof the sixteenth century, which William JNIorris tried, with partialsuccess, to imitate. It is a texture that can be perfectly reproducedtoday by those who understand
. 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. he last halfof the eighteenth century, and the greatest tapestries of the future,as of the past, will be those woven in the texture of the first (piarterof the sixteenth century, which William JNIorris tried, with partialsuccess, to imitate. It is a texture that can be perfectly reproducedtoday by those who understand it. BERLIN, ROME, MADRID, PETROGRAD The output of the tapestry looms in operation in Berlin, Romeand Madrid is imimportant as regards both quantity and quality,although the San JNIichele plant at Rome is a survival of the oneestablished in 1710 by Pope Clement XI, and the Santa Barbaraplant at Madrid of the one established in 1720 by Jacques Vander-goten under the protection of King Philip V. The first art directorof San Michele was Andrea Procaccini, who afterwards went to Spainwhere he designed for the Santa Barl)ara looms a set picturing theStory of Don Quixote, recently lent by the King of Spain for exhi-bition at the Hisjianic Museum in New York City (Plate XV). 245. Plate XV—DOX QL IXOTK KXUIMTKDSpanish tapestry designed by Procaccini and woven liy Vandergotens sons 246 » TAPESTRIES AND THEIR IMITATIONS The Russian Imperial Tapestry works, established at Petro-fjrad bv Peter the Great in 171(5, were discontinued in the middle ofthe nineteenth century. The primitive and peasant tapestries, anddevelopments from them, woven in the Scandinavian countries, andelsewhere by individual workers, have little merit. Most of these areflat without ribs, and many have vertical warps. None of them showany comprehension of the value of hatchings, and of what line struc-ture means in tapestry composition and tapestry execution. Fortunately we Americans are not ashamed to be ins2)ired b
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