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 . Plate IV Plate V BYZANTINE DOUBLET PATTERNS, THE ONE ON THE LEFT IN THE BRUSSELS MUSEUM, AND THE ONE ON THE RIGHT IN A CHURCH AT MAESTRICHT 20 DAMASKS, BROCADES AND VELVETS of the designs used on porcelain during the Ming dynasty weretaken from ancient silk brocades or embroideries, the remaining thirdbeing taken direc
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 . Plate IV Plate V BYZANTINE DOUBLET PATTERNS, THE ONE ON THE LEFT IN THE BRUSSELS MUSEUM, AND THE ONE ON THE RIGHT IN A CHURCH AT MAESTRICHT 20 DAMASKS, BROCADES AND VELVETS of the designs used on porcelain during the Ming dynasty weretaken from ancient silk brocades or embroideries, the remaining thirdbeing taken direct from nature or reproduced from old bronzes. Thisexplains the frequency on enamels and porcelains of designs infoliated panels and medallions, on brocaded grounds. A general history of Chinese art written in the Ming period inthe first half of the seventeenth century, devotes its twelfth book tosilks. It states that many of the ornamental designs of the ancientHan period (206 B. C. to 221 A. D.) were still in use, such asdragons, phoenixes, birds and flowers, peachstones and grapes, andthat in the third century after Christ the Emperor Ming Ti of theWei dynasty sent five rolls of brocade with dragons woven on crimsonground, as a present to the Empress of Japan. Under th
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