The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopædia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework ... (1882)
Caulfeild, S. F. A. (Sophia Frances Anne), 1824-1911, Saward, Blanche C · London : L. Upcott Gill · leaf 34
a border top and bottom, and contains 530figures. The material is fine linen, which has turned brown at Bayeux. A coloured photograph of the whole is to beseen in the South Kensington Museum. The work isdivided into compartments, the subjects of which are ex-plained by an embroidered Latin… … Fig. 30b. BATTLE OF HASTINGS. with age, and the stitches are chain and long. It is notrightly tapestry, but rather embroidery with crewels, asthe material is left exposed in many parts, and the designindicated with chain stitch. Thus the faces of the figuresare left bare, and the features rudely…
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