Church vestments: their origin, use, and ornament, practically illustrated (1868)
Dolby, Anastasia, d. 1873 · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 271
the perfection of richness. Of such are some backgrounds, borderings, and canopies to figures ; though the figures themselves, and, above all, their features, should be put in relief, only, by flat skadiitg. No. 9 is a ground pattern of the fifteenth century, but not a raised one. It may be seen on… … We publish No. 10, not that it is wonderful, but because it is pretty and chaste, and so very appropriate, as we have seen it used in fifteenth-century embroidery, for a drapery of our Lady. It is of gold " passing," couched all over, in this little diamond pattern, with celestial blue. The cloak…
Church vestments
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