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 52
he only ornaments ofpriests albs. Compara-tively insignificant as theyappear from the catacomb paintings to have been, it isimportant to refer to them, since from them indirectlywere developed the gorgeous orphreys with panels ofbroidery which we shall often be called upon to considerin our… … Fig. 25.—Engraving taken fromthe Catacoinbes de Rome. 40 I. EMBROIDERY. was often a season of pompous and unstinted extrava-gance one indeed when representations of all sorts andpublic games were leading factors in the governmentof a people : Panem et circenses. The Emperor Augustus, rivalling the…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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