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 261
rather die worse forwear and tear. These venerable worthies have the faces and hands painted on linen, with glories of gold foil set upon embroidered locks of hair. Their robes are of woollen Stuff disposed in actual plaits, with surplices ot fine lace resembling point desprit, bedizened with… … 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 transposedapplique. This consisted of tracing thesame design…
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