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 95
al ofBesancon a mitre which had been embroidered inCaen; * the stones which enriched it have all dis-appeared, but the mitre still exists. The subjects in designs at this period, especiallythose for orphreys and ecclesiastical ornaments, are generally panelledwithin quatre-foils(fig. 36), and… … s^j=a>C*~ Fig. 36.—Embroidery ot the fifteenthcentury (in the Cluny Museum). Similar treatment is observable inCharles of Blois, killed at the battle of Auray (1364);it is of silk embroidered with octagonal compartmentsalternately filled with a lion and an eagle. The altar-frontal in St. Martins…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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