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 . ating narrative as well as a mine of valuable information. A natural result of this opening-up of China to the West wasthe profound modification of Mediterranean textiles due to Chineseinfluence. As this influence was most strongly felt in Persia, andreached the West through Persia, the modification was more in thedire
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 . ating narrative as well as a mine of valuable information. A natural result of this opening-up of China to the West wasthe profound modification of Mediterranean textiles due to Chineseinfluence. As this influence was most strongly felt in Persia, andreached the West through Persia, the modification was more in thedirection of Persian-Chinese than of pure Chinese. The circular bandsand geometrical compartments and figure groups disappear, and aresucceeded in the fourteenth century by a wealth of flowers and leafmotifs, at first stiff and highly conventionalised, but later naturalisticthough arranged in repeats and without the freedom and freshnessof design that flourished in China. Parallel with this and doubtlessinfluenced by it, was the development of verdure ornament in Frenchand Flemish tapestries, from the crude rectilinear shapes of thethirteenth and fourteenth centuries to the varied and vivid mille fleursof the late fifteenth and early sixteenth. Indeed, the designs of many 32. ;v
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