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 . d at Beauvais,the product of which is reserved for government buildings. Of theAubusson reproductions of the Chateau de Blois and the Chateau deSt. Germain from the Louis XIV series of Royal Residences, afterLebrun; of the panels Venus and Jupiter from Claude AudransPortieres of the Gods; and of one of the Hunts of Lou
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 . d at Beauvais,the product of which is reserved for government buildings. Of theAubusson reproductions of the Chateau de Blois and the Chateau deSt. Germain from the Louis XIV series of Royal Residences, afterLebrun; of the panels Venus and Jupiter from Claude AudransPortieres of the Gods; and of one of the Hunts of Louis XV, afterOudry, the jury said: They are so like the originals as to be mis-taken for them. According to local tradition, the tapestry industry was estab-lished at Aubusson in the year of our Lord 732, by stragglers fromthe Saracen army that Charlemagnes grandfather, Charles Martel,defeated near Tours, thus saving Europe from Mohammedanism andfor Christianity. In 1664 the tapestry makers and merchants ofAubusson spoke of the industry as established from time immemorial,no person knowing the institution of it. There is, however, littleprobability that picture tapestry weaving at Aubusson antedated thefourteenth century development of the art in Flanders, or that any 233. Plate IV—MODERN AUBUSSON VERDURE TAPESTRY WITH LANDSCAPE AND BIRDS
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