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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, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927
Subjects: Embroidery Tapestry Textile fabrics Lace and lace making Wallpaper Decoration and ornament
Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks company
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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century we have but one set of tapestries, the famousApocalypse set that is preserved in the Cathedral at Angers, France.Besides this set there are only a few scattered and isolated pieces,mostly crude and small in size. This in spite of the fact that largeand magnificent tapestries were undoubtedly woven during the four-teenth century. Our study of Gothic tapestries, then, will confine itself almostexclusively to tapestries woven in the fifteenth century or the firstfew years of the sixteenth. It will also confine itself almost exclu-sively to tapestries woven within two hundred miles of Arras andBrussels, the first of which cities was the centre of tapestry weavingduring the fourteenth and first half of the fifteenth centuries; thesecond of which cities became the centre of tapestry weaving afterArras was ruined in 1477. TEXTURE OF GOTHIC TAPESTRIES Gothic tapestries, more than any others, illustrate the full andcomplete virtues of tapestry texture. Gothic tapestries, more than 248
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Plate I—DAVID AND BATHSHEBA TAPESTRY. PART OF THE FAMOUS LATEGOTHIC STORY OF DAVID, IN THE CLUNY MUSEUM, PARIS 249 IPeqp-- ^k auM.,-...

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