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. A likeness in details between this andthe first of the Scandinavian renderings is,however, noticeable. Symmetrical distribu-tion and balance of forms grow in emphasis, asthe likeness to animal forms—always obscure—declines (Fig. 12). Other and later specimens show further developments of the two… … Before leaving such Scandinavian types ofornament and their kinship to New Zealandtypes, I wish to recall the detail in the NewZealand ornament, which we found to be threefingers clasping a body or a curved form.Here is a diagram (Fig. 14) of a Scandinavianclasp, buckle, or fibula, which dates from…
Tapestry · Embroidery
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