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The Library The Tapestry Book

The Tapestry Book

Helen Churchill Candee, 1912

The Tapestry Book

The Library
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About this book

By Helen Churchill Candee. Published in New York by Frederick A. Stokes Company in 1912.

Helen Churchill Candee, an American writer on decorative arts, published The Tapestry Book in 1912. It follows woven tapestry from ancient Egypt through Arras, Brussels, the Gobelins, Beauvais, Aubusson and Mortlake, and closes with how to identify tapestries, read their borders and marks, and how a tapestry is woven on the loom.

The whole book is here, in 25 parts, with 137 of its pictures.

What you will find
HERSE AND MERCURY
HERSE AND MERCURY.
  1. Author of “Decorative Styles and Periods”
  2. WITH FOUR PLATES IN COLOUR AND NINETY-NINE ILLUSTRATIONS IN BLACK-AND-WHITE
  3. NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY MCMXII
  4. Renaissance Brussels Tapestry, Italian Cartoon. W. de Pannemaker, weaver. Collection of George Blumenthal, Esq., New York
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  1. Chapter I: A Foreword
  2. Chapter II: Antiquity
  3. Chapter III: Modern Awakening
  4. Chapter IV: Fifteenth Century in France and Flanders
  5. Chapter V: High Gothic
  6. Chapter VI: Renaissance Influence
  7. Chapter VII: Renaissance to Rubens
  8. Chapter VIII: Italy
  9. Chapter IX: France
  10. Chapter X: The Gobelins Factory, 1662
  11. Chapter XI: The Gobelins Factory, Continued
  12. Chapter XII: The Gobelins Factory, Continued
  13. Chapter XIII: The Gobelins Factory, Continued
  14. Chapter XIV: Beauvais
  15. Chapter XV: Aubusson
  16. Chapter XVI: Savonnerie
  17. Chapter XVII: Mortlake
  18. Chapter XVIII: Identifications
  19. Chapter XIX: Identifications, Continued
  20. Chapter XX: Borders
  21. Chapter XXI: Tapestry Marks
  22. Chapter XXII: How It Is Made
  23. Chapter XXIII: The Bayeux Tapestry
  24. Chapter XXIV: To-Day
  25. Best Periods and Their Dates

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