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Title: 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
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927
Subjects: Textile fabrics Textile design Lace and lace making Embroidery Wallpaper Leatherwork Interior decoration Tapestry
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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most important Gothic tapestries in England are the fourso-called Hardwicke Hall tapestries, belonging to tlie Duke of Devon-shire, and lent ))y liim to the Victoria and Albert INIuseum at SouthKensington. These hunting tapestries exemphfy wonderfully theeffectiveness of tapestry texture, and also throw vivid light upon thecustoms of the time, especially upon the hunting customs, at a periodwhen hunting and hawking were tlie favourite sports of royalty andnobility. One of these famous tapestries is shown on Plate VIII. A particularly keen interest is attached to this set of four tap-estries for America, because of the fact that the late director of theMetropolitan Museum, Sir Purdon Clarke, first suggested that theybe re-assembled out of the fragments into which they had been cutfor use as portieres. Under his direction the fragments were assortedand repaired, the colours being slowly and with difficulty studied outfrom the unfaded back, and reproduced in coloured thread ui)on the 261
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Plate XV—THE TRIUMPH OF THE VIRGINGothic tapestry in the Royal Sjianish collection 202 GOTHIC TAPESTRIES surface. This, of course, illustrates the fact that the backs of tapestriesfade less than the faces; indeed, tliey often fade not at all, beingshielded from the light. IEiVtE TAlESTRIES Plate XI illustrates tluee scenes from a famous set of tapestriespresented to the Cathedral of Beauvais in 1460, by the then Bishopof Beauvais, Guillaume de Ilellande. The coat-of-arms of thebishopric of Beauvais is seen in the upper right and lower left corners,whilst the family coat-of-arms of Bishop Guillaume de Hellande isseen in the upper left and lower right corners. The reason for thepoiiV that appears so many times on the surface of the tapestries, notonly of this tapestry. I)ut of the whole set. was the Bishops joy atthe termination of the Hundred Years AVar between England andFrance. The scenes illustrated are: 1—St. Peters Vision at .To))))a, 2—Cornelius Baptised atCjesarea, 3—St.

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