Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and (14761915856)

Identifier: decorativetextil00hunt (find matches)
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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Plate III—SAINT PAUL BEFORE AGRIPPA AND BERENICE Early Renaissance tapestrj in the Royal Spanish collection
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l-lalc l\ MO.Si:!!! SOI.i) liV I IKS BI< I.Tl I R I.NA Renaissance ta;Ustrv, in the I^oulUc collcclion RENAISSANCE TAPESTRIES burdened but liglitly witb liair. Towards the end of the fifteenth cen-tury, however, hair began to be worn longer, and after the first fewyears of the Renaissance, long hair and wliiskers liecanie quite thefashion. RAPHAEL AND HIS PUPILS The most famous Renaissance designer of tapestries is Raphael,and the most famous set of Renaissance tapestries is his Acts of theApostles. The example illustrated, however, on Plate II, is not oneof the original set which hangs now in the Vatican, but one of theRoyal Spanish set. The story pictui-ed is the Blinding of Elymasas told in verses VI to XII of Chapter XIII of Acts. Elymaswas a sorcerer who tried to turn away the Roman deputy from thetrue faith. But Paul said: Oh, full of all subtle things and allmischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wiltthou not cease to pervert the right ways of th