Cantor lectures on the arts of tapestry making and embroidery ... delivered before the Society, April 5th, 12th and 19th, 1886 (1886)
Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934, Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (Great Britain) · London, W. Trounce · leaf 15
. The patternon its surface perhaps represents tatoo marks.Beyond the human figure are horn-shaped andtwisting details, also covered with tatoo marks.Upon some of them we see the three fingers.Now, if we look at the device set betweenthe two spirals in the upper part of the canoehead, the three… … we find the human figure in the lower spacemore grotesque through distortion than in thecorresponding space of the first prow we lookedat, and this distortion in the second prow arisesno doubt from the artist of this piece beingless skilful than the artist of the first. Never-theless, in this…
Tapestry · Embroidery
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