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 32
owded and orderlyarranged ornament, and its somewhat startlingcolours claim with those of patterns to beseen in work from Crete. The class of flowers,chiefly tulips, in the Spanish specimen, the realforms of which are somewhat obscured by orna-mental treatment, is, however, quite differentfrom that… … Silk Embroidery on Linen of Cretan workmanship. Probably17th century. in Cretan, Syrian, and Persian noticedspecimens. For the most part, the embroideries to whichI have been alluding might be grouped aspeasant work ; and the facts I have suggestedgo towards confirming the likeness whichexists…
Tapestry · Embroidery
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