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 145
ered * Carrying one back to a similar band of embroidery in the peplosof Athene Polias (fig. 19, p. 36). f See description by Godefroy in Le Ceremonial de France. 132 I. EMBROIDERY. numerous particulars in following his close investiga-tions of the queens accounts, recorded after herdecease in… … Fig. 61.—French embroidery in small tent and cross stitches oncanvas (in Mademoiselle de Bressolles collection). board, nine valances, and coverlet of state similarlybedecked with crescents and suns; three damask cur-tains, with leafy wreaths and garlands figured upon agold-and-silver ground, and…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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