n/a — 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.). 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. VG, clean and tight interior but with some wear to covers and art lib. sticker on front.