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 92
thecentre. Is it possible that these give us, as it were,a list of the knights who accompanied the Duke ofBrittany on his crusade to Palestine ? In the Delaherche collection are two notable alms-bags or pouches for ladies, ornamented in a mostcharacteristic manner with embroideries of the… … Fig. 34.—Pouch of the thirteenth century (Delaherche collection). the centaur species, emblems of pride and gallantry.Such figures are often depicted in the illuminations ofthirteenth century MSS. as symbols of the debasement 80 I. EMBROIDERY. of man to the level of brute beasts. The embroideryupon…
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