. 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 VII—The Strife of Aganu-iiinnn aiul Aehillcs. Plate VIII—The Iraiisfonnation of JupiterAUBUSSON TAPESTRIES OF THE EIGHTEENTH (^KXTriiV 238 TAPESTRIES AND THEIR IMITATIONS transforiiiatioiis ol men into beasts, from Ovids Metamorphoses. Thedesigns are vivid with hfe and executed with the greatest skill. WILLIAM MO
. 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 VII—The Strife of Aganu-iiinnn aiul Aehillcs. Plate VIII—The Iraiisfonnation of JupiterAUBUSSON TAPESTRIES OF THE EIGHTEENTH (^KXTriiV 238 TAPESTRIES AND THEIR IMITATIONS transforiiiatioiis ol men into beasts, from Ovids Metamorphoses. Thedesigns are vivid with hfe and executed with the greatest skill. WILLIAM MOKRIS AND BURXE-JONES Still active at Merton, a village near London, in England, arethe taj^estry works established in 1881 by William Morris. Onlyrecently was completed the Arming of the King, a large historicaltapestry adapted from Bernard Partridges painting, but started longbefore tlie bi-eaking out of the war with Germany. The Mertontapestry, illusti-ated in Plate IX, Two Angels with Harps, is one ofa pair designed and made for Eton College Chapel. It is interestingto note in the top selvage the signature of the superintendent, J. , and of the three weavers, W. Tai/lor, K. , J. 3Iartin,who express the pious wish: X()J)is iiostrifiqKe prupitictur(leus (God have mercy upon us and all of ours).
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