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An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations (1883)

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ing workman, and an embroi-derer in blue, and purple, and scarlet, and finelinen, to be chief embroiderer to the sacred ark.The prophet Ezekiel mentions the embroideryof Tyre. It was the principal domestic occu-pation of ladies in Greece, from the days whenPenelo]5e embroidered a garment for… … Y.-^. ■2Zii. Indian Embroidery. In the Indian section ofthe South Kensington Museum. siastical vestments. Pope Paschal, in the 9thcentury, was the greatest patron of the art.When the Caliph Omar pillaged the Fersiaiipalace of Khosroes, he found there a carpet ofsilk and cloth of gold, sixty cubits…

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