Needlework as art . aythe motto was laboriously brought to a appeared dressed in purple velvet embroideredwith little white open books ; Liber being a book, themotto on it was, A me. These books were connectedwith worked blue chains ; thus we have the whole motto : Hart, fastened in pain endlesse, when she delivereth menot of bondes. Could painful ingenuity go further? Onthe English side we have similar devices. Brandon,Duke of Suffolk, the bridegroom of the Dowager Queen ofFrance, Henrys sister, was clothed on one side in clothof frise (grey woollen), on which appeared embr
Needlework as art . aythe motto was laboriously brought to a appeared dressed in purple velvet embroideredwith little white open books ; Liber being a book, themotto on it was, A me. These books were connectedwith worked blue chains ; thus we have the whole motto : Hart, fastened in pain endlesse, when she delivereth menot of bondes. Could painful ingenuity go further? Onthe English side we have similar devices. Brandon,Duke of Suffolk, the bridegroom of the Dowager Queen ofFrance, Henrys sister, was clothed on one side in clothof frise (grey woollen), on which appeared embroidered ingold the motto,— • Cloth of frise, be not too boldThat thou be matchd with cloth of gold. This parti-coloured garment was on the other side ofgold, with the motto,— Cloth of gold, do not despiseThat thou be matchd with cloth of frise. Besides mottoes, cyphers and monograms were thefashion, embroidered with heraldic devices. These par-ticulars we find in Halls account of the tournament, with a PI. English Specimens of Spanish Work. Time of Henry VIII. Lord MiddletonsCollection. Page 3S2. PI. 82.
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