. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. DAMASKS, HKOCADES AND VELVETS Genoca also reproduced Oriental designs, and its specialty duringthe fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was ciscle velvet, which is thecombination of cut witli uncut. The designs were conparatively smalland dark upon a satin ground, at first slender trees with birds perchedin the branches,
. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. DAMASKS, HKOCADES AND VELVETS Genoca also reproduced Oriental designs, and its specialty duringthe fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was ciscle velvet, which is thecombination of cut witli uncut. The designs were conparatively smalland dark upon a satin ground, at first slender trees with birds perchedin the branches, animals rampant and crouching and walking. Thecompositions were no longer synmietrical, and the uncut part wasoften different in colour from the cut part. GOTHIC rO:\IEGRANATES During the fourteenth centui-y the slender and graceful tendrilsborrowed from the Orient were converted into knotted branches thatformed a pointed oval, inside of which was placed a group of the lower angle began to sprout the pomegranate (the appleof love) that was to be the chai-acteristic oi-nament of the fifteenthcentury. At first it was small and subordinated to the animals, butit ended by crowding out the animals altogether, and being trans-formed into the imposing pattern that
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