Embroidery and lace : their manufacture and history (1899)
Lefébure, Ernest, b. 1835, Cole, Alan Summerly, 1846-1934 · London : H. Grevel · leaf 46
I. EMBROIDERY. 34 early Christians, for one of their first authors, in the reign of Tiberius, criticises the coquetry of women when they attended public worship in wearing these head veils, “ perfectly transparent and slightly ornamented with embroidery.” These veils were the prototypes of the… … Fig. 24.— Figure from astical vestments. embroideries used in Greece and at Rome came, as a rule, from Asia ; the patterns on them were Oriental in character. When a conqueror * From the Greek xpvaoq, gold. f The clavus was, according to the majority of authorities who have written about it, a band…
Embroidery · Lace and lace making
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