Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934 · London : Debenham and Freebody · leaf 129
CENTURY PATTERNS necessitated as much ingenuity in the weaving of them. But a compari- son of the two designs shows where a refinement of style distinguishes the one and is relatively absent from the other. The gradual loss of such style seems, as I have said, to take its start from about the… … Fig. 89. — Brocatelle of brown and gold coloured silk. Italian — perhaps of Milanese make. About 1560. i6th century, to which period the manufacture of the piece shown in Fig. 91 probably belongs. This loss of style coincides in point of time with that of the growing public demand for all sorts of…
Silk · Embroidery, European · Decoration and ornament
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