The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework. Dealing fully with the details of all the stitches employed, the method of working, the materials used, the meaning of technical terms, and, where necessary, tracing the origin and history of the various works described. Illustrated with upwards of 800 wood engravings, and coloured plates. Plain sewing, textiles, dressmaking, appliances, and terms (1885)
Caulfeild, Sophia Frances Ann, 1824-1911 · London : L. Upcott Gill · leaf 95
lys, winged eagles, leopards, lions, white harts withcrowns and gold chains, griffins, dragons, swans, peacocks,moons, crowns, lilypots, thistles, roses, and black trefoils.Secular subjects were not wholly excluded, and the coatsof arms of the donor of the frontal are occasionally metwith worked… … Fig. 127. PcLriT Cloth feom Forest Hill, the reign of Henry YIII.; 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, even among thenuns, the embroidery produced was…
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