Inside Out Library · Explore

Needlework as art (1886)

Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess, 1817-1888 · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington · leaf 316

An illustration from Needlework as art, 1886, leaf 316
says it was sometimes done in darning stitches for ecclesiasticalpurposes, for instance, for coverings for the pyx. It is mentioned inthe Exeter inventory of the fourteenth century. There is notice ofwhite knotted thread-work belonging to St. Pauls, London, in 1295,by Dugdale (p. 316). 2 St.… … Embroidery imitated in marble on the tomb of a knight, in the Church of theAra Cceh, Rome. Page 20 PI. 40. wJHKWw^^rfk^,V SRsttErG- f|fff^», Wlb&faffi^r**^ ^i /^-- ^jlP^: ^«^fejiiKS|fe^i*,# 1 Ppllfil K2! is^MM fl^siif^illL He CiSfoJ BISra^slHSffiSSft •- (8// w / 7/ftiPlliyiPaSP §Jfe>f…

Embroidery · Needlework

Internet Archive · Clark Art Institute Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Needlework as art

More like this