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 186
s of birdsand pairs of beasts, there being betweeneach such pair a branching tree. Thistree was a survival of the sacred Oriental horn tree, previously mentioned. Butfrom this description of the work no onecan decisively say that it was a speciesof open stitched embroidery; * and notbefore the end… … Fig. 82.—A net-work embel-lished withglass beads(Egyptian Mu-seum of the textiles was developed after the Crusades,Louvre). when princes and kings stimulated the manufacture of silken stuffs. Velvets and silks came * The contemporary MS. by Reginald the Monk speaks of thisborder to the…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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