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 97
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 … Fig. 38.—Tau-shaped orphrey of Greek embroidery, thirteenthcentury (in the Hochon collection). Abraham, an old man asleep below; between the inter-lacements of its leading branches are King David,Solomon, and the Virgin Mary; surmounting all is the THE CRUSADES TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 85…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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