"_Con vuestro consejo bastir quiero dos archas. Incamosla d'arena, cá bien serán pesadas, Cubiertas de guadamecí é bien enclavadas; Los guadamecís bermeios é los clavos bien dorados._" Nevertheless, the "coffer of the Cid" at Burgos (see p. 12) does not appear to have been thus fitted. [28] The same usage obtained in Morocco. Lancelot Addison wrote in 1669 that on the first day of their "Little Feast" the Moors across the Strait "spread the floor of their Giammas with coloured leather."--_West Barbary_, p. 213. [29] An inventory of effects belonging to the Hospital of San José at Jerez de la Frontera mentions, in 1589, "clothes and trimmings for the image of Our Lady. A crown of gilded _guadamecí_."--Gestoso, _Diccionario de Artífices Sevillanos_, vol. i., p. xxii, _note_. [30] A hall, says Ramírez de Arellano, would often be embellished by surrounding it with arches wrought of leather in relief and superposed on leather. As a rule the arches were gilt and silvered, and rested upon pilasters or columns. When pilasters were used, their centres would be ornamented with Italian devices such as flowers, trophies, imitated cameos, and foliage. Landscapes with a far horizon and no figures, known as _boscaje_ or _pintura verde_ were painted on the space between the arches, so that the general effect was that of a pavilion with arches on all sides, displaying everywhere a wide expanse of fertile country. The arches rested on a broad bordering of _guadamecíes_, and running round the lower part was a _zócalo_ or socle, commonly made of tiling. Such is the kind of decoration which was most in vogue in Spain throughout the latter half of the sixteenth century; that which was exported to Rome; and that which was commissioned by the Duke of Arcos. CARPENTRY AND WOOD-CARVING The artistic carpentry of older Spain produced as its most typical and striking monuments, three groups of objects which may be included generally under Furniture. These are the _celosía_ or window-lattice, the door of _lazo_-work, and the _artesonado_-ceiling which adorns a hall or chamber, corridor or staircase. [Illustration: XVIII CARVED _ZAPATAS_ (_Casa de Salinas, Salamanca_)]