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 . ever since then have weavers displayed the same skill. Prob-ably the first Scipio tapestries made from the designs of GiulioRomano were the Francis I set, rich with gold, in twenty-two pieces,four French aunes high with combined width of a hundred and twentyFrench aunes (roughly, 16 by 480 feet), woven in Brussels by M
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 . ever since then have weavers displayed the same skill. Prob-ably the first Scipio tapestries made from the designs of GiulioRomano were the Francis I set, rich with gold, in twenty-two pieces,four French aunes high with combined width of a hundred and twentyFrench aunes (roughly, 16 by 480 feet), woven in Brussels by MarcCretif and burned for the gold they contained in 1797. [Note: Thelength of a French aune is 46% inches, roughly 4 feet or one andone-fifth metres.] The most complete descriptive list that we have of Francis IsScipio tapestries is from a royal inventory of about 1660, reproducedby Reiset in his Desseins au Musee Imperial du Louvre, Paris, widths of the different tapestries are given in French aunes. Thefirst thirteen of the tapestries pictured the Deeds of Scipio; the lastnine the Triumph of Scipio. By some strange and fortunate chance fifteen of Giulio Romanosoriginal Scipio drawings (petits patrons) have been preserved and 277 %W«KniB):raimRi>iJ5imme ,-V. Plate VII—OUR LADY OF SABLONAn early Renaissance tapestry in the Brussels Museum
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