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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 83

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of which are waved like flames), fleur-de-lys, wingled eagles, leopards, lions, white harts withcrowns and gold chains, griffins, dragons, swans, peacocks,moons, crowns, lilypots, thistles, roses, and black trefoils.Secular subjects were also not wholly excluded, and the coatsof arms of the donor… … Fis. 127. Pulpit Cloth from Porest Hill. The work may be said to have died out in England inthe reign of Henry VIII.; and although it continued foranother century on the Continent, it gradually becameconfined to the nunneries, and was no longer the universallabour of the ladies of the land ; whilst…

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