Sooseys.
Shaulbasts.
Silk Lungees.
Taffeties.
Taffety nankeens.
Velvets.
The above list is copied from a tract protesting against foreign importations that was printed about 1700.
CHAPTER X
FURNITURE OF THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES
Lacquer—Oriental Methods—European Importations and Limitations—Prices—An Ambassador’s Report—Singerie, Chinoiserie and Rocaille—The Dutch Decadence—Interiors of Cornelis Troost—Mirrors—Wealth and Luxury of Dutch Merchants—Court Contrast—Tapestry—Brussels as a Centre of Art and Luxury—Eighteenth Century Furniture—The Empire Style in the Low Countries—Dutch Homes of the Nineteenth Century—The Maarken House and Furniture—Typical Farmhouse and Furniture—Country Seats and Town Houses—Hindeloopen Houses and Furniture—A Friesland House—Canal Boat Furniture—Dutch Love of Symmetry—Collectors and Collections.
So far little attention has been paid in these pages to lacquer, though important articles of household furniture that owed their beauty and value to this species of ornamentation have appeared in inventories and diaries under the designation of “vernish,” “japan” or “japanned.” Sometimes this work was referred to as “black” merely, as in the case of John Hervey’s “dear wife’s” boudoir.