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 69
s a newedition. The following extract tells us that on solemnoccasions of pomp Charlemagne wore a close-fitting * Eginhard, Vita Karolis imperatoris. $6 I. EMBROIDERY. vest or jacket of gold embroidery, sandals, or, moreproperly speaking, slippers set with precious stones, acloak or mantle fastened… … Fig. 27.- -Embroidered Slippers that belonged to Charlemagne ; inthe Treasury at St. Denis, Paris. arts ; and the princesses of his court, from his motherBertha of the large feet to his daughters, were sedulousin becoming proficients in the art of embroidery. Achronicler writes,— Ses fillcs fist…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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