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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1401#0274
No. 13.]
AUGUST 30, 1851.
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FRANCE.—THE GOBELIN TAPESTRY.
The manufacture of tapestry appears to have taken its rise in the East at a very remote period. Tyre, Sidon, and
Babylon, were famed in ancient times for their tapestries, embroidered with gold and silver; and " Tyrian purple " is
the subject of frequent encomium in the works of the classic authors. It is only at the time of the Crusades, how-
THE FOREIGN MACH^E DEPARTMENT, LOOKING. EAST.—FROM A DAUUERRWliPE BY PEHREKBACH.
Europea iT firS* hear of }he manufacture of embroidered tapestry attaining any degree of perfection in moden
-^_J_l__^^n_^^n tne fo™ of wall-hangings in the houses of the rich. There is one piece in particular
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AUGUST 30, 1851.
[Price 2d,
/rap (CntitriWinM fa tjj* WmW% fmwx.
FRANCE.—THE GOBELIN TAPESTRY.
The manufacture of tapestry appears to have taken its rise in the East at a very remote period. Tyre, Sidon, and
Babylon, were famed in ancient times for their tapestries, embroidered with gold and silver; and " Tyrian purple " is
the subject of frequent encomium in the works of the classic authors. It is only at the time of the Crusades, how-
THE FOREIGN MACH^E DEPARTMENT, LOOKING. EAST.—FROM A DAUUERRWliPE BY PEHREKBACH.
Europea iT firS* hear of }he manufacture of embroidered tapestry attaining any degree of perfection in moden
-^_J_l__^^n_^^n tne fo™ of wall-hangings in the houses of the rich. There is one piece in particular
Hi
M
n
^^^^■-^^gHH