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 40
ity.Indians especially , • c • , 1 • Fig. 17.—Queen Taia (Necropolis of never tire of using their & ^ Thebes)needles to depict animal hunts. * A description in the Orestes of ^Eschylus is given ofhow Agamemnon, on his return from Troy, recoiledfrom placing his feet upon the rich stuffs laid in… … 28 I. EMBROIDERY. According to Virgils JEneid, the son of Anchisesgave valorous Cleanthes, victor in afight, a splendid robe described as a chlamys of golden web, borderedwith double meanders in purple.Upon the web was embroidered theson of Tros in a forest, javelin inhand, chasing a fleet hart.…
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