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 42
some, the Arrephori were four girls of betweenseven and eleven 3-ears of age, two of whom superintended the weavingof the sacred peplos of Athene. Other authorities say that there isno evidence that the Arrephori took part in the Panathenaic festival(see p. 71 of the British Museum Guide to the… … Fig. 19. — Fragment of aGreek statue with embroi-deries on the drapery. 30 EMBROIDERY. Our museums contain many sculptures and Greekand Etruscan vases on which are figured persons wear-ing embroideries (see figs. 19, 20, 22, and 23). A fine stone at the British Museum is engraved witha Babylonian…
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