Old English embroidery : its technique and symbolism (1894)
St. Aubyn, Alan, Marshall, Hugh · London : H. Cox · leaf 62
al objects of artcollected together at South Kensington Museum. This beautiful ecclesiastical vestment is said to have beenworked by nuns in a convent near Coventry in the second half ofthe thirteenth century. The ground of the cope is green, coveredwith interlaced barbed quatrefoils, in each of… … u bo c W O U co>> en <ujz E- THE SVON COPE. 41 Cherubim standing on wheels. The orphreys are two broad bandsof shields charged with the armorial bearings of our most illus-trious English families, and bordered with a narrow band ofemblazoned shields. The morse and hem are also wrought…
Embroidery · Christian art and symbolism
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