Excerpt from Tapisseries, Broderies Et Dentelles: Recueil de Modeles Anciens Et Modernes, Précédé d'une Introduction L'art de la tapisserie en haute lisse, en d'autres termes, l'art de peindre au moyen de fils s'enroulant sur une chaine verticale, et fai sant corps les uns avec les autres, est aussi vieux que notre civilisation la plus reculée, pour ne pas dire aussi vieux que le monde. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.