ALGUNOS ASPECTOS DEL ARTE TEXTIL DE OSTENTACIÓN EN MURCIA: ALFOMBRAS, COLGADURAS Y TAPICES DE LOS SIGLOS XVII Y XVIII

Résumé

This paper concerns the study, in a local Murcian context, of the development and importante of textile coverings (rugs, drapes, canopies. cloths ornamented with the coat of arms and tapisteries) in the decoration of civil and domestic as well as religious interiors throughout the 17^th and 18^th centuries. The high quality of these objects of luxury made the owners demand more sumptuous pieces in which there were borders in precious materials as well as textiles of extraordinary value. As important are the interiors of palaces and noble houses, the jorm, arrangement andplacing of the drapery and textiles as well as the craftsmen responsable for them and the artistic centres where they were made, that were not always in the city of Murcia. Apart from an abundant documentation, hitherto unedited. the existence in the Murcian cathedral freasury of a splendid Rococo rugfabricated in the Royal Factory of Carpets in Cuenca is commented upon, dated in 1783 and used in the most solemn acts that took place in that sacred religious space.