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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 77

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ginators of those sumptuously illuminated letters,in which a profusion of dragon-headed scrolls and in-terlacing twists is seen. There was therefore no lackin the eighth to twelfth centuries of clever designersand skilful workwomen, who might well found thereputation of an opus Anglicum. In M. de… … Fig. 31.—Details from the stole ofSt. Thomas of Canterbury. bury on the 29th December, 1170. preserved in the cathedral of Sens. the neck and shoulders is to some extent based upon the interlaced scroll forms used by Anglo-Saxon MS. illuminators. In the treasury of the cathedral at Namur is…

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