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
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… … Fig. 32 was worn on the occasion of a grand regalprocession. Another duke of musical tasteshad a wonderful garment, also decoratedwith pearls, but in a different way. It ismentioned in the inventory of Charles VI.as belonging to Charles, Duke of Orleans.The sleeves were embroidered up and downwith…
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