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
embroidery is in two-strand worsteds orcrewels, and the colours of the wool limited to eight, two Edward the Confessaor in Westminster Abbey, the as-sumption of the crownby Harold, the landing of William,the battle of Hastings, and death of Harold. The borderis chiefly occupied with grotesque… … Fig. 30c. BATTLE OF HASTINGS. blue, two green, a buff, pink, red, and yellow. The em-broiderers have not attempted to give the natural colouringto animals, &c, frequently working a yellow or blue horsewith legs of a widely different colour, and from the limitednumber of colours used there is a…
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