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)
Mollett, John W. (John William) · London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington · leaf 142
, and an embroi-derer in blue, and purple, and scarlet, and finelinen, to be chief embroiJerer to the sacred ark.The prophet Ezekiel mentions the embroideryof Tyre. It was the principal domestic occu-]iation of ladies in G>-ecce, from the days whenl\-nelope embroidered a garment for… … F ^. -jj. Indian Embroidery. In tlie Indian bCLtion ofthe South Kensington Museum. siastical vestments. Pope Paschal, in the 9thcentury, was the greatest patron of the art.When the Caliph Omar pillaged the Persianpalace of Khosroes, he found there a carj)et ofsilk and cloth of gold, sixty cubits…
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