Embroidery and lace : their manufacture and history (1899)
Lefébure, Ernest, b. 1835, Cole, Alan Summerly, 1846-1934 · London : H. Grevel · leaf 172
i6o I. EMBROIDERY. mother-of-pearl, of the splendid gold blue blendings of the peacock's plumage. It disdains nothing, not even tinsel, provided it flashes brightly ; not even crystal, so long as it irradiates light. At all costs its duty is to … shine, sparkle, and glitter, to send forth prismatic rays ; it must be blazing, blinding, and phosphorescent ; and so the sun acknowledges its defeat.”* * Theophile Gautier’s V Orient a VExposition , quoted by Didron in his Report upon the Decorative Arts, 1878.
Embroidery · Lace and lace making
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