The decorative arts ecclesiastical and civil of the Middle Ages (1851)
Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873 · London, William Pickering · leaf 51
oot fix inches and ahalf long, by one foot two inches in height. Our three wood-cuts below reprefent the ends of a ftole and twomaniples, taken from fculptured figures under the fouth porch of the Ca-thedral at Chartres. The ftole in ancient times was made of fufficient length to reachalmoft to the… … [Triptych, fol. 2) into what is now called gold thread, was drawn out into very thin wire,and in this light but folid form was woven, with the help of a very littlefilk, into a kind of metallic web, leaving at proper intervals bare fpacesfor the working of the figures of faints, by the needle, or…
Decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Church decoration and ornament
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