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 156
nown as bonheur dll jour, etc., reveal Fig. 65.—Indian coloured embroidery the fact, as testified (in the Clun? Museum)- by specimens of them in collections, that many ladiesdid not disdain employing some part of their leisurein the art of the needle. Europe followed the lead of France in the… … 144 I. EMBROIDERY. Poland, overcame the Turks in 1683, compelling themto raise the siege of Vienna, he took possession of acanopy hung with curtains, beneath which the Koranand Mahomets standard had been reverentially keptin the Turkish camp. It was made of Smyrna goldbrocade, embroidered in…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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