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Identifier: decorativetextil1918hunt (find matches)
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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Plate I—BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY DESIGNED BY BEKAIN 285
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< pi .£p 3 — 13 p.. GOBELINS, BEAUVAIS, MORTLAKE TAPESTRIES tapestry weavers, instal their workrooms on the banks of the Bievre.Theirs is the tapestry plant often described as the Early Gobelinsby contrast with the Gobelins after it became the property of theCrown sixty years later. The Bievre is the little stream in the rear,now covered and no longer used, that was greatly cherished by dyersof red in ancient days, because of the special virtues that made itswaters suitable for their purpose. Frans Van Den Planken (theFlemish form of the name) came from Audenarde, Marc de Comansfrom Brussels. Although the partnership was formed and becameactive in January, 1601, for the manufacture of tapestries and forother important commercial operations, the royal edict of Henri IVofficially incorporating the business, and granting it large subventionsand important privileges, while imposing on it heavy burdens such asthe training of many apprentices and the operating of tapestry worksin the

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