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Verdure Yellow |
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Pale Verdure Green |
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Deep Verdure Green |
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Verdure Brown |
Verdure tapestry colours
The art of tapestry-weaving was introduced from the East into Flanders during the 12th Century and there flourished in its highest forms. From the 14th to the 17th Centuries the looms of the Low Countries of France were busy in making and exporting a commoner kind of tapestry, which was comparitively inexpensive compared with that in which the figure predominated. These tapestries were used for the decoration of ordinary rooms until economic conditions led to the advent of wall papers which took the place of tapestries.
The chief features of the Verdures were the large flowing all-over patterns of dentate foliage in a low toned shade of green parseme, with a sparse overlay of brightly coloured sprigs of more or less naturalistic flower motives. The more expensive kinds had animals, birds and figures of a subsidiary type in colour tones harmonising with the larger leafage.
Doubtless the colours and the conventional treatment were fixed by the Guilds of the time and were in vogue even in this country in the tapestries made by the many workmen from the continental factories. Their decorative feeling for colour in low tones is of great value to the decorator.
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