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In one was seen cotton piled up in bales, or manufactured into dresses and articles of domestic use, such as tapestry, curtains and coverings.
Their very position on these walls is very like what tapestries were so frequently used for in the lavish mural decoration of the time.
The history of French furniture is quite closely connected with the history of tapestry, for after a time it was used as a covering.
Her citizens were renowned for the tapestries which bore their name: the nuns of her convents excelled in all kinds of needlework.
Thereafter, until the advent of machinery put an end to tapestry as a significant art, the cabinetmaker led all the other decorators.
The tapestry and architectural picture, decorative and appropriately impersonal, as the wall decorations should be in a room used merely for transacting business.
Conspicuous in the somber richness of these treasures were two marble busts, standing on either side of the great tapestry fronting the door.
In its design the tapestry is more Renaissance in feeling than Baroque, but the crowded ordinance of the composition betrays its late date.
An instant later she was standing with her back to the wall, leaning helplessly against the ancient tapestry that clothed it.
There was nothing around me that was not old: old walls and towers, ancient tapestries and arms, musty rooms, yellowed manuscripts.
In the dim background, barely visible in the faint firelight, hung faded tapestries with, here and there, some portrait or pair of horns.
Long pieces of tapestry, worked with feathers of a thousand hues, and representing the entire history of the Indian religion, cover the walls.
The entrance is by a doorway surmounted by the Hardwick arms, over which is the most gorgeously fine piece of tapestry, representing Juno.
The new, more conscious houses are alike in their very attempts at diversity: the same bungalows, the same square houses of stucco or tapestry brick.
The riches she contained were beyond calculation; pearls, amber, musk, and precious stones, tapestries, silks, spices, and gold formed her cargo.
Here came a call for Molly, and the girl with a petulant exclamation, sped away, leaving Aurelia to the society of the tapestry.
The dwellings of men of any wealth or rank were very curiously planned, elaborately ornamented, richly painted, and adorned with magnificent tapestry.
He exclaimed, dashing aside a piece of tapestry that seemed merely hung against the wall, but in reality concealed a short flight of steps.
Before the houses themselves, moreover, small platforms with chairs have been erected, protected by linen awnings, decorated with tapestries, carpets and flowers.
They had played Mozart in the room hung with faded tapestries, or, beguiled by the sunshine, they had walked in the park.
Hilary stopped before a piece of extremely shabby, frayed and dingy tapestry, that had the appearance of having once been even dingier and shabbier.
A sort of shuffling, scraping noise, which seemed to come from the direction of the passage leading from the tapestry room to the garden.
In many parts there are vertical or even overhanging precipices five or six hundred feet high, yet completely clothed with a tapestry of vegetation.
The royal pavilion had its poles plated with silver, the tapestries were green and purple, the couches were spread with gorgeous coverlets.
In working the tapestry so much in vogue during the Middle Ages, certain persons were indicated by hair or complexion of a particular tint.
She said contemptuously, when she had looked and listened for a moment, and heard only a little faint scratching behind the tapestry.
We have alluded to two sets of these tapestries, and it is believed that there were two; whether exactly counterparts has not been ascertained.
The vines on the gray stone buildings were cool to the eye with their green that hung like a tapestry from eaves to earth.
A servant brought lights, and a slender bright ray shot through a small opening in the tapestry, previously unobserved by the student.
On festival days the house will be hung with brilliant and elaborately wrought tapestries which will suddenly emerge from the great chests.
The walls of the supposed banqueting hall were hung with tapestry, sufficient in length to drape both the wings and the background.
At this moment a tapestry was drawn aside, and a lady, appearing on the dais, stood beside her husband with a look of inquiry.
It had some old tapestry hanging on the walls, an old harpsichord in a corner, and bits of invalided furniture which were beyond use.
And think of the young wife meanwhile, alone with her maids and her tapestry in the dank isolation of her lonely, listening castle.
The school is the great loom on which the rising youth weaves its thread into the great and amazing tapestry of the nation.
In the shelter of white bookcases, the backs of volumes in red and tawny and brown gave the effect of tapestry cunningly woven.
The effect of this species of ornament is very noble and imposing, and the tapestries have the additional merit of warmth and comfort.
It is easy to conceive that English women would readily seize upon the idea supplied in tapestry and adapt its designs to that of embroidery.
"Why, my dear sir, the first thought of a burglar would be to carry off those pictures and tapestries, which are universally renowned."
It should then be cut out and pasted on a prepared surface of fine canvas or calico, thus giving the rubbing an appearance like tapestry.
As they turned to face her, Diane dropped the tapestry and with a deep curtsy towards her young hostess advanced with outstretched hands.
For the mere pleasure of destruction, as they slashed with the sword or bayonet the tapestries and costly lace which covered the altar.
This type of light crossbow was especially popular with aristocratic ladies who are frequently represented shooting it in hunting tapestries of the period.
She was next preceding us up a spiral turret stairway; the adjacent walls were hung here and there with faded bits of tapestry.
To my disappointment we found that an oblong piece of some size was missing from the center of the tapestry on one of the walls.
The state tower, in which, after reiterated entreaties, I was at last left alone to repose, was hung with magnificent, but ancient tapestry.
With this she dropped a stately curtsy, and, taking her candle, went away through the tapestry door, which led to her apartments.
The furniture, tapestries and ornaments were all of an epoch two centuries back, and the whole picture fascinated Patty beyond all words.
Particularly well known outside the country are the woven rugs, tablecloths, and tapestries that decorate all rural homes and many urban ones.
I could not stop myself from casting a surreptitious glance at my old worm-eaten furniture, my damp tapestries and my dusty floor.
Here and there a faded tapestry still lingered, or a banner fluttered in the breeze which stole in through many a crack and cranny.
Color in tapestry can thus be used in purer, more saturated masses than in any form of painting, not excepting even the greatest murals.
A royal lady, with a mild, rather intellectual countenance, is seated with her attendant ladies, busily employed in working a large piece of tapestry.
Pictures, chairs, sofas, curtains, tapestry, kitchen utensils, library, anything and everything you want, are all ready for sale, and only await purchasers.
As it flashed by a branch caught upon the trailing tapestry, hurling me to the deck, and tearing away with it all that finery.
The designer of the tapestries appears to have got hold of a distorted form of this story in the fifth panel of this series.
He always reminded me of the gaunt, red-bearded faces one sees on knights and lovers in the great French tapestries of the fifteenth century.
There was much tapestry, subdued in hue, but in good condition, and as frankly uninteresting in subject as the generality of old English needlework.
Here and there the cavalcade passed clumps of trees that lined the road, and it was then like pictures you have seen in tapestry.
The Virgin is seated under a porch, and her throne decorated with rich tapestry; two graceful angels hold a crown over her head.
The bed and dresser were mahogany, plain, but highly polished, and she had a mahogany rocker with a cushion of old blue tapestry.
The great hillside before them sloped up to meet the blue sky, the golden gorse spread its splendid tapestry against the green pasture.
Always half-blind and more confused than ever, I reach the door and slip out, not, however, without getting somehow entangled in the tapestries.
Even now it is a favorite subject for those whose perverted taste leads them into the dubious art of copying tapestry in paints on cloth.
It is easy to find by reference to the huge volumes of French writers on tapestry just when certain sets of cartoons were first woven.
I pondered these things long (as if the thread in the tapestry should marvel at its devious windings) and then summoned my landlady.
All the fantastic lights were extinguished, and those of Charles and his suite revealed only the old tapestries, slightly waving in the draft.
His presence was needful for the weaving of that design by which right should be realized in the final presentation of life's tapestry.
And she lingered before carved cabinets, strange vases like frozen rainbows, and Oriental tapestry with the instinctive delight in luxury planted in women.
The shattered frames on which the tapestry was stretched in old times remained in the panels, with crops of small, rusty nails visible.
This dais stood in a great, dim room whose walls were hung with dusky tapestries across which crawled dragons reproduced with repellent realism.
On the day, gravel would be spread along the procession's route, and barricades erected; house fronts would be adorned with plants and tapestry.
During this gradual change through five hundred years in the artistic qualities of tapestry the technical tricks of the weavers underwent corresponding modification.
Above, the garden, with its dreamy tapestries wrought out of living color, stretched towards the old house whose casements gleamed towards the sea.
Fine paintings and tapestries adorned the walls, and a multitude of small tables offered places for all who chose to sit at them.
Here might be seen cotton piled up in bales, or manufactured into dresses and articles of domestic use, as tapestry, curtains, coverlets, and the like.
On the floor was a great rug of tapestry showing nymphs and dolphins carrying wreaths of fruit and flowers woven into the design.
At length, when even the weaving of tapestry or the twanging of the lute was a toil, there rose a cloud in the north-western sky.
The two tapestries, not the largest, but those most splendidly toned by time, had been on the whole its most uplifted pride.
Except for their sense of money, their aims were as foreign to the soil as their pictures, their tapestries, their furniture, and their clothes.
On the floors soft Crimean rugs, and on two long walls were pieces of tapestry which would have adorned the halls of any magnate.
The thing she had observed was hanging up among the weapons and armor and tapestry which decorated this wall of the studio.
Napoleon was delighted to remember that his mother reclined on tapestry representing the heroes of the Iliad, when she brought him into the world.
After the king's regalia had been delivered to him with the usual formalities, each article was placed on a table covered with rich tapestry.
Clare bent her head over her tapestry as she heard a footstep approaching, and labored as if she were laboring for her daily bread.
Take therefore, we entreat, this lamp and dagger; conceal the lamp in the tapestry of your chamber, and in the night satisfy your curiosity.
Even in Gothic tapestries there are many heads that are striking portraits, but these are entirely graphic in character and so fitted for tapestry.
And with this she dropped a stately curtsy, and, taking her candle, went away through the tapestry door which led to her apartments.
Lately I have seen such beautiful ones, about three feet long and one foot wide, covered with tapestry, with great gold tassels at the corners.
Among the tapestries which belonged to Charles V. was one "worked with towers, fallow bucks and does, to put over the King's boat."
At this moment a strange figure raised the tapestry, and the guests saw before them a little hunchback, whose bald skull rose in a point.
Colbert drew up a series of articles and stipulations, long papers of rules and restrictions which were considered a necessary part of fine tapestry weaving.
Before considering the change that came to designs in tapestry, it is necessary that both mind and eye should be literally savants in the Gothic.
It was the boast of Napoleon that his mother reclined on tapestry representing the heroes of the Iliad, when he was brought into the world.
He, however, gives a great deal of interesting information, especially about the French tapestries, on which subject we fancy there is little more to tell.
Small windows throw a feeble light on the somber tapestries; though the day is fine, it is difficult to distinguish the various objects of furniture.
This room, hung with tapestry, and the floor covered with a carpet, was so dark that the burning tapers scarcely gave it light.
Passing the statue, Otto made for the grotto indicated by his guide, and, raising the tapestry of ivy, which concealed it, disappeared within.
There are two doors; one large and in full view, the other small and secret, and formerly covered by tapestry of green damask.
The queen is reclining on a couch, for she cannot sit up, in a vaulted hall divided into various rooms by thick screens of tapestry.