Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . eagle. The altar-frontal in St. Martins at Liege is perhapsone of the more beautiful of religious fourteenth-century embroideries. It measures 3 metres in lengthby -18 metre wide. Different episodes, from the life * Sigillographie de Normandy, by de Farcy. THE CRUSADES TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 83 of the canonized bishopof Tours, patron saint ofthe church, are repre-sented in a long series ;each episode being sepa-rated from its neighbourby
Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . eagle. The altar-frontal in St. Martins at Liege is perhapsone of the more beautiful of religious fourteenth-century embroideries. It measures 3 metres in lengthby -18 metre wide. Different episodes, from the life * Sigillographie de Normandy, by de Farcy. THE CRUSADES TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 83 of the canonized bishopof Tours, patron saint ofthe church, are repre-sented in a long series ;each episode being sepa-rated from its neighbourby trees or some archi-tectural motif. It is no doubt a workby one of the celebratedartists of Tours, who,like those in England ofthe eleventh century,were notable equallyas designers or and em-broiderers. Indeed,whenever the brush andthe needle are thus inter-changeable implements, aremarkable epoch in theart of embroidery revealsitself. An origin under suchconditions may be fairlyclaimed for a magni-ficently embroideredorphrey in the Spitzercollection (fig. 37), onwhich we have a Jessetree. The treatment ofthis, and the character of. Fig. 37.—Part of an orphrey em-broidered with a Jesse tree(fourteenth century). 84 I. EMBROIDERY. the figures and ornamentation, are distinctly analogousto those seen in fine stained glass and illuminated the fourteenth century. The tree in full leaf rises from
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