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 42
28 I. EMBROIDERY. According to Virgil's jEneid, the son of Anchises … Fig. 1 8 -Egyptian bronze statue in th riches f p • j di the museum at Athens. ' ' Egypt, Chaldsea, Assyria, Babylon, and Phoenicia diffused themselves more and more. Babylon particularly was a centre for the pro- duction of most sumptuous embroideries. We have noticed that the veil of the Temple…
Embroidery · Lace and lace making
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
