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 VI—Cope in Persian sixteenth century brocadedvelvet, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Plate VII—Ancient Persian velvet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 36 DAMASKS, BROCADES AND VELVETS introduction of a wealth of motifs from the East, which, as they trav-elled West, lost their meaning and became formal small r
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 VI—Cope in Persian sixteenth century brocadedvelvet, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Plate VII—Ancient Persian velvet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 36 DAMASKS, BROCADES AND VELVETS introduction of a wealth of motifs from the East, which, as they trav-elled West, lost their meaning and became formal small repeat pat-terns instead of large, living ones; last, and most important of all, bymechanical improvements in the loom which made it easier to producepattern and harder to produce design. MOHAMMEDAN PEESIAN PATTERNS Noteworthy are the damasks and brocades and velvets ofMohammedan Persia (Plate VIII) in the fifteenth and sixteenthcenturies, alive with personages and animals in the midst of luxuriantflora. Especial fame attaches itself to the city of Kashan that hadbeen founded by the wife of Caliph Harun-al-Raschid, Charlemagnesheroic Saracen contemporary. The favorite flowers were the jacinth,the tulip, the eglantine, the pink, and the peach blossom. The mannerof their expression and composition was a marvel of decorative stems describe graceful curves,
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