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
fornament 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 afterthe nthcentury. In it isamotive of… … sort of imitation or trace of inter-influencebetween the nth century Scandinavian workand New Zealand work of the 19th century.It seems to demonstrate that gradual develop-ments of pattern-making may be apparentlyindependent of one another, and yet exhibit ina remarkable way a common similarity…
Tapestry · Embroidery
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