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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 171

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absorbed the 158 I. EMBROIDERY. attention and energies of the nation during the Empire,embroidery received scanty recognition and encourage-ment. Comparatively few of such handsome costumesand uniforms as are painted by Gerard in his portraitsof Napoleon, Josephine, and Marie-Louise were to beseen… … Fig- 73-—Silver spangle embroidery for a coat, Empire period(in the Museum of Decorative Arts). passing into a few rooms further on, similar pictures ofthe splendid functions, under Louis XIV., will be foundsignificantly emphasizing the decadence which, mean-while, had ensued and culminated in…

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