Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . Plate IX—English crewel work of the seventeenth century. Plate X—English cushion cover in crewels Embroidered in coloured worsteds on fiat twill ground Modern reproduction 114 EMBROIDERIES embroidery is mostly in gold, the draperies being executed in basketweave and laid stitches. The faces are in white silk split-stit
Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . Plate IX—English crewel work of the seventeenth century. Plate X—English cushion cover in crewels Embroidered in coloured worsteds on fiat twill ground Modern reproduction 114 EMBROIDERIES embroidery is mostly in gold, the draperies being executed in basketweave and laid stitches. The faces are in white silk split-stitch, flatand outlined in black silk. The hair, the shadowy part of the draperies,and the clouds are in especially fine gold and silver thread with darkoutlines. A noteworthy feature of the patterned background is thecrosses inside of circles. SICILIAN In the twelfth century the Sicilian city of Palermo, underthe Normans, rivalled Byzantium (Constantinople) as the worldsembroidery and weave centre. The styles were largely Saracenicbecause of the many Mohammedan workmen employed. One of themagnificent coronation robes at Vienna, embroidered in gold with adate palm, and two lions attacking camels, and enriched with pearlsand tiny enamelled plaques, bears an Arabic inscription stating thatit was made in the royal factory at Paler
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