Tapestry painting; a practical hand-book of instruction in the use of the liquid indelible dyes or tapestry colors
A 1892 New York practical hand-book by E. Day MacPherson, published by F.W. Devoe, teaching amateurs to paint tapestry with liquid indelible dyes. Its plates are halftone reproductions of late nineteenth-century genre paintings, numbered as enlargements and studies, showing idyllic woodland scenes, classical-dressed women, pastoral figures and deer. A designer might take the soft, sentimental figure groupings and naturalistic foliage as models for decorative panel compositions.
