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 159
SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO DEATH OF LOUIS XIV. 145 cloths previously prepared with drawings and paintings of figure subjects, such as those done by eminent painters like Le Brun and his pupils. There are some important door hangings at the Cluny Museum, in the borders of which are French fleurs de lys… … Fig. 66.— Indian embroidery, w ith the device of the fleur de lys introduced (in the Chin}' Museum). blank by the designers, and the embroiderers accord- ingly worked over them as their own taste dictated ; whence it happens that persons with distinctly European poses and actions are represented as…
Embroidery · Lace and lace making
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