Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 403
e time (fifth cen-tury) silk embroidery became com-mon (in Chinese flat stitch—whatthe Eomans called feather stitch);there are many interesting exam-ples of it (Figs. 172,177, and 178),but none which can be called truly artistic. Figure 178 repre-sents an unique object in Forrers collection, which… … of a clavus in tapestry. part TAPESTRY 375 patches (crosses, squares, and lozenges) of plain silk, all of themapplique. Forrer takes it to be an episcopal pallium of thesixth century. It may belong quite as well to the seventh cen-tury, and it is hard to believe that it was actually intended fora…
Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism · Church architecture · Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
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