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Embroidery and lace; their manufacture and history (1899)

Lefébure, Ernest, 1835-, Cole, Alan S · New York : G. P. Putnam · leaf 117

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THE CRUSADES TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. IO5 broadly say that the unafifectedness of design which marked the immediately preceding period is less con- spicuous in work of the Middle Ages. One perceives that the extension of Oriental and Byzantine influence, aided by the crusades, helped both designer… … Heraldic and Eig.45. — Italian emoroidery, fifteentn century ... , (in the Hochon collection). religious subjects almost equally engaged the needle of the embroiderer, a preference being shown for saints with militant attributes. And it seems as though religious art in its expressions in churches…

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