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 . century, the greatprosperity of Holland enabled every burgomaster to have a giltleather room in his house. Possibly they preferred leather because ofits cleanliness, the hygienic standards being higher among the Dutchthan elsewhere at this period. In the last half of the eighteenthcentury the Dutch still continued to u
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 . century, the greatprosperity of Holland enabled every burgomaster to have a giltleather room in his house. Possibly they preferred leather because ofits cleanliness, the hygienic standards being higher among the Dutchthan elsewhere at this period. In the last half of the eighteenthcentury the Dutch still continued to use leather, when in Englandand France it had been crowded out by wall paper. The designs ofDutch leathers run to tulips and carnations. Plate II is interesting, not only because it is English Georgian,but especially because it is one of the few flock leathers that havesurvived. The process of figuring leathers in flock is similar to theprocess employed on wall papers, or in Germany on linens for theimitation of Italian velvets, long before paper was practicable. PlateIII shows a Portuguese chair back bearing the tree design with lions,an echo of the ancient Assyrian tree design, preserved in the carvedstone tablets of the ninth century B. C, lent by Mr. Morgan to the 435. o enWQ XI 5o j H u HKH a (S3 ao X
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