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 . XH ao < W< si Q a S 4) s to. Ctt Jl i,|.|o k W -£ W o5o o %2Q §•= K ° a H j2 1) 5 C4J O RENAISSANCE TAPESTRIES lection (Plate II; also Plate I of Chapter XVI). These borderswere not flower-and-fruit borders, but compartment borders, eachcompartment containing some allegorical figure, like Charity orPrudence, with
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 . XH ao < W< si Q a S 4) s to. Ctt Jl i,|.|o k W -£ W o5o o %2Q §•= K ° a H j2 1) 5 C4J O RENAISSANCE TAPESTRIES lection (Plate II; also Plate I of Chapter XVI). These borderswere not flower-and-fruit borders, but compartment borders, eachcompartment containing some allegorical figure, like Charity orPrudence, with the Latin name often spelled out beneath in Romanletters. Of these comjjartment borders there are two types, the ItalianRenaissance type as it came direct from the pencil of Giulio Romano,and the Flemish Renaissance type as it was modified in Flanders byFlemish designers and weavers. Distinctive of Flemish designersand weavers is their love for floriation and verdure. Of this thefamous Gothic mille-fleurs are splendid evidence. Consequently theywere not satisfied with the plain and bare backgrounds of the ItalianRenaissance compartments, but proceeded to fill them up withFlemish Renaissance flowers and leaves. The border of Plate IIillustrates the Italian Renaissance type of compartment border; theb
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