Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers (1888)
Lefébure, Ernest, b. 1835, Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934 · London, H. Grevel · leaf 159
T Museum). blank by the designers, and the embroiderers accord-ingly worked over them as their own taste dictated ;whence it happens that persons with distinctly Europeanposes and actions are represented as wearing clothes,and moving in scenery and amongst surroundings alldecorated or treated in a… … i&KAfr Fig. 67.—Velvet costume embroidered in gold and silver for Catherineof Brandebourg, seventeenth century (in the Buda-Pesth Museum). Looking back we see that the sixteenth and seven-teenth centuries are periods of great splendour in SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO DEATH OF LOUIS XIV. 147 embroidery. No…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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