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 43
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… … Fig. 20.—Painting on a Greek vase. the mast of a ship rolled on wheels in the Panathenaic festival, wasdestined for the sacred wooden idol, Athene Polias, which stood inthe Erectheus. This peplos was a woven mantle renewed everyfive years. On the ground, which is described as dark violet, and…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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