Painted tapestry and its application to interior decoration : practical lessons in tapestry painting with liquid colour
An 1879 London instructional manual published by Lechertier, Barbe and Co., written by Julien Godon, teaching painters how to decorate fabric in imitation of woven tapestry using liquid colour. The pictures are plain black-and-white wood engravings: rows of numbered brushes with their ferrules and handles drawn at graduated sizes, and a tall wooden easel with a frame for holding the work. A designer could take from them the clean, technical line-drawing style of Victorian instructional plates, with close attention to tool profiles.
