Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . fringes are similarlytreated, and glitter and sparkle to the pawing of thebedizened steeds. All this clinquant finery glistens inthe public places beneath the rays of the Oriental sun,producing the effect of boundless affluence so consonantwith the majesty of a sovereign. * In the Compte Rendu de la Commission Impcriale Archeologique(1878-9), facsimile illustrations of these precious examples are given ;and full descriptions of them by Steph
Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . fringes are similarlytreated, and glitter and sparkle to the pawing of thebedizened steeds. All this clinquant finery glistens inthe public places beneath the rays of the Oriental sun,producing the effect of boundless affluence so consonantwith the majesty of a sovereign. * In the Compte Rendu de la Commission Impcriale Archeologique(1878-9), facsimile illustrations of these precious examples are given ;and full descriptions of them by Stephani are contained in the accom-panying text. They were taken in the course of excavations in1875-6 from the tomb of the Seven Brothers near Temriouk in theProvince of Koudan, which includes the south-east corner of the Sea of FROM THE CHRISTIAN ERA TO THE CRUSADES. 47 In the seventh century the rise of Mohammedanpower began to impair the mightiness of the Byzantinecourt. But the triumph of the Mussulman, far from Azof. From various data Stephani convincingly fixes their date at thefourth and third centuries , not as Mons. Lefebure appears. Fig. 25A.—Chain stitch embroidery with yellow flax upon mulberry-coloured worsted material. Greek. Fourth century From tomb of the Seven Brothers, near Temriouk, in the province of to think. The specimen here engraved is worked apparently with asilky-looking flax thread, yellow in colour, in chain stitch on a blue-red worsted material. In other relics of this important find we havethin golden plates shaped like leaves stitched to worsted stuff; andthe patterns of others are worked in short stitches. The embroiderydisplays clear evidence of a complete knowledge, in the fourth , on the part of the Greeks, of these stitches, which, as might beexpected, were evidently wrought with a comparatively cumbrousneedle. 4» I. EMBROIDERY. injuring textile arts, so intimately wedded with Orientalfashions, infused into the
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