An encyclopædia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences .. (1894)
Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881, McClenachan, Charles T. (Charles Thompson) · Philadelphia, L. H. Everts · leaf 819
are often omitted. They are, how-ever, generally found in the French. Len-ning, speaking, I suppose, for the German,assigns to them but two. Four tassels are,however, necessary to complete the sym-bolism, which is said to be that of the fourcardinal virtues. The tessellated, moreproperly,… … There is, however, in these old tracing-boards another border, which surrounds theentire picture with lines, as in the follow-ing figure: This indented border, which was made torepresent a cord of black and white threads,was, I think, in time mistaken for tessella?,, orlittle stones; an error…
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