Embroidery and lace; their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors, and general readers (1888)
Lefébure, Ernest, b. 1835 · London : H. Grevel · leaf 77
opus Anglicum in its wider sense. St. Dunstan, the artistic English monk of the twelfth century, has been cited as a designer for embroideries. Anglo-Saxon calligraphists are usually considered to be the originators of those sumptuously illuminated letters, in which a profusion of dragon-headed… … a Becket, who was Fig. 31. — Details from the stole of St. Thomas of Canterbury. martyred at Canter- bury on the 29th December, 1 1 70 The originals are preserved in the cathedral of Sens, The pattern about the neck and shoulders is to some extent based upon the interlaced scroll forms used by…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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