Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and (14783290832)
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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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vet, and in richness does not pale beforetapestry or brocade. Of course, there are leathers and leathers. Some of them aremere painted imitations of the reality. Some of them have no textureat all, and might just as well be painted canvas or paper, like theJapanese and wall paper leathers. But with the imitations, near or remote, this account has nothingto do. All of the leathers illustrated are real leathers, made rich intexture by actual tooling and illumination. Extraordinarily rich and beautiful is the leather illustrated incolour on Plate I, from the house of Titian, the famous Venetianpainter of the sixteenth century. This piece of leather was brought tothis country by the late Henry G. Marquand, president of the boardof trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to whom was due theattempt to develop in America the art of tooling and illuminatingleather in the ancient fashion, an attempt made successful by theco-operation of the great architect and decorator, Stanford White.416
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