Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910, Buckle, Mary · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 164
here, as in the workingof his body, a certain economy of gold ; a smallamount of the ground is allowed to show betweenthe lines of double gold thread—not enough totell as ground, but enough to give a tint of theground colour to the metal. Further, in this moreopen couching the direction of the… … 58. COUCHED GOLD NOT QUITE SOLID, 138 ART IN NEEDLEWORK. of the legs, the relatively compact gold threads arekept well within the outline, by which means any-thing like harshness of silhouette is avoided. That this less solid manner was not confined tothe far East is shown by the Venetian…
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