_378	THE ARTS
many an aristocratic home.   Both were celebrated in Gay's
Trivia:
Where Covent-Garden's famous temple stands,
That boasts the work of Jones' immortal hands;
Columns with plain magnificence appear,
And graceful porches lead along the square.^1
Inigo Jones was as successful with the interiors of houses as
with their exteriors. Fine examples of his designing are to be
, found in the state rooms at Wilton, Wiltshire. Indeed the
'double cube* (60 feet by 30 by 30), with its panels filled with
Van Dyck's portraits of the Herberts, and the height of the
walls lessened by coving above a strong cornice, has been called
the finest room in England.^2 An illustration of this room, or of
any state room, will show that internal decoration had developed
marvellously from the day of the baronial hall with its arras.
Now, Jacobean panelling had often displaced the tapestry, and
its carving had almost become an art in itself. The scenes carved
there were much the same as those the tapestry weavers had
depicted. Moreover the plaster work of the ceilings had become
highly decorative, not only with heraldic emblems and scrolls
but with representations of beasts and birds. There were two
further kinds of ornaments which had been rarely seen in a
home before the sixteenth century but which were eagerly
sought far and wide in the seventeenth, pictures and sculpture.
Wotton compared them, in their relation to architecture, to
the gentlewomen who dress and trim their mistress. These arts
had become so fashionable under the early Stuarts that a house
without collections of them would have seemed bare indeed.
Although tapestry lost its dominating position as a decoration
for the state rooms of the wealthy, it was still highly prized.
Indeed the seventeenth century constitutes a famous period in
the history of tapestry weaving, both in France and England.
In the former country Henry IV installed royal workshops in
Paris and Louis XIV organized the Gobelins* factory. In
England James I started a manufactory at Mortlake. In 1619
Sir Francis Crane was authorized to establish a manufactory
of all kinds of tapestry in England and allowed to bring from
the Low Countries a number of tapestry weavers. He started
^1	Bk. ii, 11. 343-6.
^2	J. Alfred Gotch, The English Home (1919), p. 58, where is a fine illustration of
the double cube.