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 41
ns with ardour and pants forbreath, when suddenly Joves bird,swooping from the summit of MountIda, seizes him in its claws and bearshim away to the heavens. The spreading and luxurious useof embroideries did not escape theprotests of the moralists in ancienttimes. Diodorus Siculus recordsthat… … Fig. 18 — Egyptian bronze statue in the riches 0f Persia, India,the museum at Athens. Egypt, Chaldaea, Assyria,Babylon, and Phoenicia diffused themselves more andmore. Babylon particularly was a centre for the pro-duction of most sumptuous embroideries. We havenoticed that the veil of the Temple…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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