Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . nscriptions explaindifferent episodes connected with the Conquest ofEngland by the Normans. They commence withHarold leaving the Court of Edward the Confessor,and finish with the Battle of Hastings. The wholework, in fact, is a sort of needle-wrought epic. Thedrawing of the figures is perhaps infantile, but thework has the charm of frankness and irrefragableauthenticity.* It has been misnamed a tapestry, since it is entirely * See The Baycux
Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . nscriptions explaindifferent episodes connected with the Conquest ofEngland by the Normans. They commence withHarold leaving the Court of Edward the Confessor,and finish with the Battle of Hastings. The wholework, in fact, is a sort of needle-wrought epic. Thedrawing of the figures is perhaps infantile, but thework has the charm of frankness and irrefragableauthenticity.* It has been misnamed a tapestry, since it is entirely * See The Baycux Tapestry, by Frank Rede Fowke, published1875. (Arundel Society.) FROM THE CHRISTIAN ERA TO THE CRUSADES. $9 an embroidery done with the needle by means ofcouched worsteds on linen (fig. 28). After the Battle of Hastings William the Conqueroris said to have held a meeting with the nobles of hisnew kingdom, presenting himself before them in amantle covered with Anglo-Saxon embroideries. Is itprobable that this robe is the same as that mentionedin the inventory of the Bayeux Cathedral, 1476,after the entry relating to the broderie a telle repre-. Fig. 28.—Fiece of the Bayeux embroidery. senting the Conquest of England ? Two mantles arethere described, one of King William, all of gold,powdered with crosses and blossoms of gold, and edgedalong the lower border with an orphrey of figures; anda mantle said to have been worn by the duchess, allpowdered with little figures, and trimmed in front withorphreys. These robes have usually been thought to be ofEnglish work, and it is certain that, at the time, Eng-land was noted for her embroideries. In the seventh century St. Etheldreda, first Abbess 60 I. EMBROIDERY. of the Monastery at Ely, made an offering to St. Cuth-bert of a sacred ornament she had worked with goldthread and precious stones.* At Durham are preservedthe cope and maniple belonging to St. Cuthbert andfound in his tomb; they are considered to be specimensof opus Ang
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