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Ornament in European silks (1899)

Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934 · London : Debenham and Freebody · leaf 109

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AND EARLY i6th CENTURY PATTERNS 69, and several small ones in the brocaded damask of Fig. 70. P. Veronese (about 1560) has robed his Europa in a damasked satin of the same pattern as that of Fig. 71 ; whence it might be inferred that it is a type of pattern produced about the middle of the i6th… … Whereas damasks are Fig. 70. — White satin, with damasked leaf-shape ornaments. About thc^e a woven in one colour, he.yagonal framing of leafy bars, small birds, crowns, and formal groupings of pomegranate fruit and leaves are brocaded in coloured silks. In the centres of the lampas, which much…

Silk · Embroidery, European · Decoration and ornament

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