Tapestry section from Historic Ornament: Treatise on Decorative Art and Architectural Ornament
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An excerpt (pp. 325-332) from James Ward's Historic Ornament (1897), covering tapestry in the chapter on textile fabrics. It explains high-warp and low-warp tapestry weaving, the weaver's technique and the problems of colour gradation, then surveys the history of tapestry making in Flanders, France (Gobelins, Beauvais, Aubusson, Savonnerie), Italy and England (Mortlake, Barcheston). It closes with a short section on carpet manufacture in England and the East. One halftone shows a sixteenth-century Italian tapestry of Hagar and Ishmael.
- Type
- Monograph
- Date
- 1897
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 9
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