Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess, 1817-1888 · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington · leaf 246
n and Arab tissues. The embroidered banners taken from Charles le Temeraire, at Grandson, are finished with broad borders of gilded inscriptions, such as might be called beaten gold work.^ But besides this thick gold-leaf, there was another mode of enriching embroideries. Laminae of gold were cut… … Fig. 19. Spangles. forms — circular rings, stars, crescents, moons, leaves, and solid pendant wedges of gold, all which approached the art of the goldsmith. Enamel was soon added to the enrichment of these golden spangles, plates, or discs, which were enlarged to receive a design.'^ Of this style…
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