Embroidery : a collection of articles on subjects connected with the study of fine needlework, including stitches, materials, methods of work, and designing, and history ... (1909)
Christie, Grace · London, James Pearsall · leaf 73
grotesque lions head and someacorns, both composed of pearls. The fan-tastic, stem-like columns to which they areattached occur at frequent intervals all overthe cope, forming the dividing lines be-tween the many figures and subjects worked 48 upon it. Again, each of the twenty-sixangels in the… … Fig. 29 good illustration of this can be seen in amitre in the possession of New College,Oxford, left to it by the founder, BishopWilliam of Wykeham, who died in 1360.Although mutilated, this is still a very fineexample of jewelled embroidery. Fig. 30 isan outline drawing of the front of the…
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