Tapestries, Textiles and Embroideries
Washington, DC: The National Society of the Fine Arts, 1908. Softcover. Decorative paper wraps with string-tied binding. 40 pp. with 9 bw illustrations. (Cover decoration is intended to look like a textile fragment; cover is not missing pieces or spotted.). VG, clean and tight interior but with some wear to covers and art lib. sticker on front. Item #142268
Catalogue of the 200+ examples in the exhibition. The essay discusses the tapestries in depth: history, weaving, pre-Christian, up to the 12th C., 13th-15th C., 16th, 17th, 18th, C. tapestries (separately), and explains several exhibition pieces - tapestry looms and 31 tapestries hung in the Sculpture Hall. The rest of the catalogue lists and sometimes describes the pieces, without essay material: many Italian and Japanes brocades, Italian damasks, Cashmere shawls, Turkish embroideries, a collection of Asian textiles and fragments, Early American, Mexican and European samplers and more.
Price: $65.00