Tapestries, textiles and embroideries; a loan exhibition given by the National Society of the Fine Arts in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, February fourteenth to twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight (1908)
Washington society of the fine arts, Washington, D.C, Corcoran Gallery of Art · [Washington, D.C., Press of Gibson Brothers] · leaf 11
entation, the purposes for which it wasutilized and to some extent the popularity to which it attained fromthe beginning of the Christian Era until the twelfth century. TheEgyptians were the most skillful weavers in ancient times and totheir lineal descendants, the Copts, the practice of the craft… … WOMAN NURSING A CHILD. Loaned by Mr. Larz Anderson. Egyptian in the design of their weavings. During the last Christianperiod a characteristic Coptic style took its place, a style in whichnatural forms were outraged, palliated by the coloring and finetexture. While the Coptic tapestry weaving is…
Tapestry · Embroidery
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