The woman's book, dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunties, and every-day problems (1894)
New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 267
— the seven-teenth century.The specimen de-scribed is in thecollection of M.Leclercq, in Paris.Ecclesiastical em-broiderers madeabundant use of ap-plique in supplyingflat masses of color to altar-cloths andvestments. In Spain, horse-trappingsand reposteros are loaded with appliqueflowers cut from… … Cinque-Cento Applique\ Another drapery of this period hasscrolls and vases cut from blue andlemon-yellow silk, and applied to whatwas once garnet velvet, now faded tosalmon-red. Italian workers of the seventeenthcentury were fond of using transposedappliqui. This consisted of tracing thesame design…
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