Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 330
Vv. 265.—A])ostolic Tree of Life,with the Cross Emblem. TEXTILE FABRICS. 311 of sacred names, and emblematic plants. The use of theseheraldic and Christian elements was in a great measure dueto the influence of the Crusaders in the Middle Ages. Thefavourite colouring of the Sicilian silks was dark… … Fig. 266.—Silk Damask ; Sicilian ; with Imitated Arabic Characters. (R.) elements were usually woven in gold threads as in the ex-ample given (Fig. 267). Towards the end of the fourteenth century and during thefifteenth the designs became more floriated, the vine andpomegranate, with vase forms,…
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