Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess, 1817-1888 · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington · leaf 226
ideries in Spainand elsewhere (PL 32). 1 For all information about asbestos, see Yates, pp. 356, 565. ■ There is one at the Barberini Palace at Rome. A sheet, woven ofasbestos, found in a tomb outside the Porta Maggiore, is described bySir J. E. Smith in his Touron the Continent (vol. ii. p. 201)… … Materials. 125 Beads of glass were common in Egypt from theearliest times, strung together by threads so as to formbreastplates rather than necklaces. Whence beadsoriginally came we cannot tell, but it seems that thePhoenicians dropped them on all the shores of theworld. Then, as now, savages had a…
Embroidery · Needlework
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