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
e same time developing theircompliance with rules as to balance of formsin arrangement, contrast, and so forth, a per-fectly different style of ornament may arise inwhich there will be little, if any, trace of thedistorted human figure. Now distortion in representing figures andtheir arrangement… … from the earlier iron age, which for convenienceone may roughly date between the 4th and nthcenturies of the Christian era. Here is a speci-men of ornament (Fig. 10) from Scandinavia,the grotesqueness of which is not very remote from that of the New Zealanders. The subjecthere is animal form ; two…
Tapestry · Embroidery
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