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 75
t had somany counted pearls on it, and so on.They were applied to the embroidery inall kinds of ways. Sometimes seed pearlswere used to fill in a background, as inWilliam of Wykehams mitre ; at other timesstrings of pearls were stitched down to out-line a pattern, a nimbus of a saint, or a foldof… … Fig- 3i garnished with many pieces of worked gold,cut in shapes of lozenges and squares. Forfurther decoration it had embroidered uponit forty sheep and forty swans composed of pearls. Each sheep had a bell hanginground its neck, and each swan held one inits beak. It had also upon it…
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