A study of the artist's way of working in the various handicrafts and arts of design (1905)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 286
TEXTILE ART the introduction into some stuffs of very narrow, flat strips of gilded metal, which keep their color and lustre even better than the gilded silver wire, though not so perfectly as paper. Fig. 79 is a … Fig. 80. Old Venice gold brocade piece of stuff" or which the background is ribbed white silk with pieces of flat silver foil introduced into it, producing a lustrous silvery ground. The small flowers are in colored silk of four hues. The larger flowers are entirely in gold, nearly the whole being…
Art · Decorative arts
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