232 BORDERS AND CRESTINGS into Roman painted borders, the other that of a piece of different Coptic tapestry weaving, we see how patterns such halves^ as tnese mav ^e developed into all-over decoration. This method of band enrichment was very usual in the work of the Middle Ages, and band… … FIG. 253. Oriental art. In Fig. 254 some details are given of the painted decoration of an early sixteenth-century wooden chancel screen in the Church of Saint Botolph, at Trunch, in Norfolk. The mouldings oi this screen, which are very numerous, are decorated in gold and colours, as is shown in…
Decoration and ornament
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