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 165
nown were then pro-duced : sofas, causeuses (small sofas),tete-a-tetes, or double seats, cameinto use, and were covered withtapestry-weavings or with canvasembroidered in cross and tent-counted stitches. When human figures were partof the ornamentation in this class ofwork they were done with silks… … Fig. 70.—Embroidery ingold and pearls upon the wedding coat of tesque forms, monkeys, squirrels, the Grand Dau- H . phin, after St. clowns, and such-like at times pour- Aubin- trayed with great spirit, very finely worked, but often in very mediocre taste, were freely adopted. Francois Boucher, when…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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