Old English embroidery; its technique and symbolism (1894)
St. Aubyn, Alan, Marshall, Hugh · London, H. Cox · leaf 158
Io6 OLD ENGLISH EMBROIDERY. Restoration, but the style was wilder and more luxuriant than the early Renaissance it succeeded. Like every other art of that period, it threw off all restraint and indulged in a season of licence. The work was lovelier than ever, and richer in colouring, but the… … strip of earth, and bearing every Bed Hangings embroidered in blu'e- variety of flower and leaf, done in green Crewels. (English, 17th Cen- tury.) In the possession of Lady every shade of colour and every Brougham and Vaux. variety of stitch. On the bank beneath, primroses and cowslips spring up,…
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