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 96
workby one of the celebratedartists of Tours, who,like those in England ofthe eleventh century,were notable equallyas designers or MS.illuminators and em-broiderers. Indeed,whenever the brush andthe needle are thus inter-changeable implements, aremarkable epoch in theart of embroidery… … Fig. 37.—Part of an orphrey em-broidered with a Jesse tree(fourteenth century). 84 I. EMBROIDERY. the figures and ornamentation, are distinctly analogousto those seen in fine stained glass and illuminated MSS.of the fourteenth century. The tree in full leaf rises from
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