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 99
goldand silver. Their de-signs have all theboldness and Oriental Fig. 39.—Embroidery ot the fourteenth character which Onecentury (in the Hochon collection). alsQ finds ^ Cordovan decorative leathers. The colours in both are the same;and gold is cunningly used in conjunction with sombretones,… … THE CRUSADES TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 87 mounted several rows of pearls. But this evidentabuse of the metal in its relation with a textile couldnot last long; and these inappropriate golden plaqueswere speedily modified into spangles, those pretty littlediscs of gold, silver, or polished steel…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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