Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors, and general readers (1888)
Lefebure, Ernest, 1835-, Cole, Alan S · Lond., H. Grevel and co. · leaf 101
rls. But this evident abuse of the metal in its relation with a textile could not last long ; and these inappropriate golden plaques were speedily modified into spangles, those pretty little discs of gold, silver, or polished steel used in certain classes of embroidery for dainty glinting effects.… … Fig. 40. — Embroidery designed b}T Lucas van Leyden, taken from his portrait of Maximilian I. (sixteenth century), belonging to M. Dutuit. this spangled work is the chasuble embroidered by Isabella la Catolica, and carried by King Ferdinand to the cathedral of Granada after the taking of that town…
Embroidery · Lace and lace making
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