Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . from a largeembroidery. The outer borders to it (which we haveomitted) are of slightly later date, and are wroughtwith armorial bearings, with coloured silks, and gold 64 I. EMBROIDERY. and silver threads in small cross stitches.* The whole,however, is undoubtedly the finest specimen extant ofopus Anglicum in its wider sense. St. Dunstan, the artistic English monk of the twelfthcentury, has been cited as a designer for
Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . from a largeembroidery. The outer borders to it (which we haveomitted) are of slightly later date, and are wroughtwith armorial bearings, with coloured silks, and gold 64 I. EMBROIDERY. and silver threads in small cross stitches.* The whole,however, is undoubtedly the finest specimen extant ofopus Anglicum in its wider sense. St. Dunstan, the artistic English monk of the twelfthcentury, has been cited as a designer for calligraphists are usually considered to bethe originators of those sumptuously illuminated letters,in which a profusion of dragon-headed scrolls and in-terlacing twists is seen. There was therefore no lackin the eighth to twelfth centuries of clever designersand skilful workwomen, who might well found thereputation of an opus Anglicum. In M. de Cau-montsand books illus-trations are givenof a fine chasuble(fig. 30) and stole(fig. 31), and a mitreworn by St. Thomasa Becket, who wasmartyred at Canter-The originals areThe pattern about. Fig. 31.—Details from the stole ofSt. Thomas of Canterbury. bury on the 29th December, 1170. preserved in the cathedral of Sens. the neck and shoulders is to some extent based upon the interlaced scroll forms used by Anglo-Saxon MS. illuminators. In the treasury of the cathedral at Namur is themitre worn by Bishop Jacques de Vitry, who died in * This description of the Syon Cope is adapted from that given in theDescriptive Catalogue of the Collections of Tapestry and Embroidery inthe South Kensington Museum, 1887. FROM THE CHRISTIAN ERA TO THE CRUSADES. 65 1244.* It is a mass of embroideries in gold and silverthreads, with a figure of St. Lawrence on the front, andone of St. Thomas of Canterbury on the back. A verysimilar mitre is in the museum at Munich. According to the Rev. J. Raine, chasubles of red silk(taffetas), thickly embr
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