Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers (1888)
Lefébure, Ernest, b. 1835, Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934 · London, H. Grevel · leaf 133
, and of a broader and moredecorative class, are certain very striking Spanishaltar-cloths of red velvet with arabesques, having the * See description of this, pp. 285, 286, Descriptive Catalogue ofthe Collections of Tapestry and Embroidery in the South KensingtonMuseum. 120 I. EMBROIDERY.… … Fig. 52. Altar frontal of velvet with Spanish embroidery of thesixteenth century. textiles held under the auspices of the Union Centraledes Arts Decoratifs* One of the finest sets of embroidery exhibited in theAncient Art Section of the Paris Universal Exhibitionof 1878 consisted of four pieces of…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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