Oriental carpets, runners and rugs and some Jacquard reproductions .. (1910)
Humphries, Sydney, 1862-1941 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 245
akes it difficult, if notimpossible, to translate into the corresponding likeness and similitudesof modern life :— It was an ancient custom to dedicate the finest pieces ofweaving and embroidery to honour the funerals of the dead ; andthese were usually wrought by the nearest relations in their… … (AO w X >- M Qw -r. 5 OS w 0.O Carpets Runners and Rugs expostulations of Telemachus, complaining of the officious andunwelcome attentions paid by the Princes to Penelope, says, withhaughty rage and stern mien :— O insolence of youth ! whose tongue affords Such railing eloquence, and war of…
Jacquard, Joseph-Marie, 1752-1834 · `Abbas I, Shah of Iran, 1571-1629 · Rugs, Oriental
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