. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations . her protective armour exceptingfor the left arm. (See Gladiators.) Reticella (Lat. reticulus, a little net). Thiswas the first known needle-made lace, producedin all lace-making countries under differentnames. (See Greek Lace.) It was made inseveral ways : the first consisted in arranging anetwork of
. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations . her protective armour exceptingfor the left arm. (See Gladiators.) Reticella (Lat. reticulus, a little net). Thiswas the first known needle-made lace, producedin all lace-making countries under differentnames. (See Greek Lace.) It was made inseveral ways : the first consisted in arranging anetwork of threads on a small frame, crossingand interlacing them in various complicatedpatterns. Beneath this network was gummed apiece of fine cloth, open like canvas, called quin-tain (from the town in Brittany where it wasmade). Then with a needle the network wassewn to the quintain by edging round thoseparts of the pattern which were to remain thick,then cutting away the superfluous cloth :hence the name of cutwork in England. Amore simple mode was to make the pattern de-tached without any linen; the threads radiatingat equal distances from one common centre 278 WORDS USED IN served as a frame-work to others, which wereunited to them in geometric forms worked over W/////A ■ nilllhilllllLIIIII. ^»z0i»i*i»i4»ipsii»i*»i^^^
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