. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. Plate XVIII—Bench cover in petit point on gros point, English Chinese style Modern reproduction ^SJ^/jJIT. l*hite XIX—(harlcs 11 stita Idvci-cd witli ancicnl pt-til ]>oint ) ITliM 1 IJO EMEROIDKRIES and folds being indicated in twist. The faces and hands arc merelyontli
. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. Plate XVIII—Bench cover in petit point on gros point, English Chinese style Modern reproduction ^SJ^/jJIT. l*hite XIX—(harlcs 11 stita Idvci-cd witli ancicnl pt-til ]>oint ) ITliM 1 IJO EMEROIDKRIES and folds being indicated in twist. The faces and hands arc merelyontlines. The first of the two scenes illnstrated shows Harold andhis men riding to Bosham (cqvittiiit ail Bosham). Harold, mountedwith falcon and dogs, approaches tlie church (ecdcsm). The scenebelow shows William and his army crossing tlie Channel and arrivingat Pevensey (et venit ud Pivcucsac). ENGLISH, FLEMISH AXD FLOKENTINE In the library of the English cathedral of Worcester are frag-ments of thirteentli century gold embroidery on silk taken from thecoffins of two of the ])ishops, besides other similar fragments in theBritish Museum and in the South Kensington Museum. At thisperiod, English sacred embroidery was so famous that we find it con-stantly ajjpearing in the inventories of western Europe as dc opcrcangUcano. The most splendid example that has survived is theSyon c
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