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On spine: Fabrique. Tissage de la soie; Volume contains mounted samples of silk accompanying the instructions for weaving; Printed title page, the rest of the volume is handwritten; "Manuscript written on about 200 pages within a blue line border. Title in red and black ; 244 drawings of remettages, armures, empoutages, etc. executed in coloured inks, the drawings of the 'empoutages' being particularly fine and executed in several colours ; 78 mise en carte, and 257 samples of woven silks which also include the samples woven from the 78 mise en carte. The samples are mostly of figured silks including such materials as brocatelle, gaza, gourgourant, catele, levantine, poult de soi, marceline, matelassi, lampas, gros à Afrique, etc."; Exhibited: "Textiles and Fiber Arts Exhibition," organized by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library; Exhibited: "Case and Lobby Displays," organized by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, 1984; Exhibited: "Books Containing Unique Works of Art," organized by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, 1992-3; Additional electronic version available through Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/MAB.31962000741870Images_20130625_1725
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