Old English embroidery : its technique and symbolism (1894)
St. Aubyn, Alan, Marshall, Hugh · London : H. Cox · leaf 49
s recently found in the Fayum inEgypt. Old work has so often been transferred in succeeding gene-rations that sometimes one meets with two or three layers on onesample. The few examples that remain to us of the beautiful E 2 28 OLD ENGLISH EMBROIDERY. work of the Middle Ages, the orfrais that… … Large Ship of the 15th century, the sail embroideredwith the Arms of the Earl of Warwick, and the streamerwith the Bear and Ragged Staff.—Cott. MS. Embroidery till the thirteenth century was practised chieflyin convents and religious houses, and the ladies who practised itlearnt it with the rest of…
Embroidery · Christian art and symbolism
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