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 16
d opposite to one another. The tailof each curls up towards the back of the head.The shape of the space into which these detailshave been grouped has affected their generalarrangement. The idea of animals placedvis-a-vis is very ancient in its connection withpattern, and long before this grotesque… … considers this pattern to represent two lionscouchants. Lions coicchants and vis-a-visoften appear in Roman ornament, as well,indeed, as in many other types of ornament,and this motive has been adopted by Teutonictribes, who have remodelled it according tothe exigencies of their taste, or as far as…
Tapestry · Embroidery
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