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The arts and crafts of older Spain (1907)

Williams, Leonard, b. 1871 · London : T.N. Foulis · leaf 182

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quantity of white satinrequired, and pay him two hundred and ten ducats,secured by certain of the convents revenues, forthe gold, the silk, and the workmanship. Manuel Torralbo contracted to embroider avelvet altar-front and its corresponding front clcrasfor the parish church of Luque, at a price… … TEXTILE FABRICS the other of black velvet, with borders andcaidas embroidered in yellow satin and white satin,with skulls and bones embroidered in gold.1 Turning our attention to the embroidery whichwas executed, principally as a recreation, by high-born Spanish ladies of some centuries ago,…

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