Old English embroidery; its technique and symbolism (1894)
St. Aubyn, Alan, Marshall, Hugh · London, H. Cox · leaf 84
54 ' ■ OLD ENGLISH EMBROIDERY. designs in this way. Exeter Cathedral, in an inventory dated 1277, had a cope of white diaper with half moons, and St. Paul's Cathedral one with parrots done in green. … Figured Silk, Fourteenth Century. The meaning of the word diaper gradually widened, so that it came to be used when the same pattern or ornament was repeated, or when the pattern was sprinkled or powdered over the surface.
Embroidery
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