Identifier: practicalbookofp00eber (find matches)
Title: The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Eberlein, Harold Donaldson McClure, Abbot, 1879-
Subjects: Furniture
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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and brought a whole train of consequences in its wake. By her signal devotion to needlework the Queen also greatly encouraged the fashion for English women to broider elaborate covers in petit point (Key III, 4; Plate IV, p. 76) for upholstered chairs, settees and stools. In this needlework upholstery we find the same strong, exuberant colour that ran riot in the gorgeous imported stuffs and rich fabrics of home manufacture with which men and women of the day were wont both to clothe their bodies and cover their furniture. English colour sense was still fresh and lusty and joyed in broad, vigorous tone effects that would have horrified later generations. The advent of numerous Huguenot textile workers, driven out of their own country by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, vastly improved the quality and increased the quantity of the output of English looms, and many of the splendid textures they made were designed and woven with special reference to the national chromatic fancy. Marqueterie furni-
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WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT DROP-FRONT SECRETARY WITH SINGLE HOOD TOP By Courtesy of Messrs. Maple & Co., Tottenham Court Road, London PLATE III WILLIAM AND MARY 73 ture (Plates V, p. 82, and VII, p. 90) appealed to the same colour sense and was in high favour. Love of colour, too, played not a little part in the fondness for lacquer work, the passion for which had become firmly established by the beginning of the period and retained a strong hold long after its close. Everywhere were found tables, cabinets, cupboards, chests and chairs with intricate and often beautiful gold Oriental decorations on a ground of black, blue, red or green. The early importation of Oriental lacquer had not only brought about its imitation and extensive manufacture in England but had also stimulated a strong Eastern taste that had led to the introduction, and eventually the domestic manufacture, of wallpaper in bold Oriental patterns of landscapes, birds or flowers. All these things combined to give the furnishings

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