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 36
sles —exclaims, The merchantsof Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad were thy merchants.These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in THE EMBROIDERY OF ANTIQUITY. 23 blue clothes and broidered works, and in chests ofrich apparel, etc. Another part of the same chapter(xxvii.) speaks of the fine linen… … Fit -Egyptian sailing boat (Gardner Wilkinsons AncientEgyptians, vol. ii., p. 167). Temple was a Babylonian curtain, fifty cubits high,sixteen broad, embroidered in blue and red, and ofmarvellous texture. In a variety of colours the uni-verse, the stars, and elements were represented. These few, of…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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