Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 613
40. 588 TEXTILES Though the Italians did not weave silk during the first millenniumof our era, the Rome of the earliest Middle Ages became a distributingcentre where the silk and other textiles of the Orient and the ^EasternMediterranean were brought for sale or presentation. It was at^ Romethat… … Fig. 369. Tapestry of the thirteenth century, in the style of early textiles.(Musee Industriel, Lyon.) peacocks, unicorns, eagles, lions, elephants, leopards, and other beasts,with various tree-forms, enclosed for the most part in rotae or rotellae.By these words are meant circles or medallions,…
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