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 158
ave been under his directions that commissions weregiven to the Chinese to make embroideries on large SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO DEATH OF LOUIS XIV. 145 cloths previously prepared with drawings and paintingsof figure subjects, such as those done by eminentpainters like Le Brun and his pupils. There are… … Fig. 66.—Indian embroider}-, with the device of the fleur de lysintroduced (in the Clun}T Museum). blank by the designers, and the embroiderers accord-ingly worked over them as their own taste dictated ;whence it happens that persons with distinctly Europeanposes and actions are represented as…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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