Needlework as art . tol and Chester in 1780. (See Appendix.) In the reign of James I. it wasthe fashion to do portraits inneedlework, stitched flat or are artistic in design andexecution, but they are mostlyridiculously bad. The East India Company wasfounded in 1560, under Elizabeth,and obtained the monopoly of theAnglo-Indian trade, under Crom-well, in 1634. This would havebeen the moment for encouraging a fresh importation ofOriental taste into our degenerate art. Cromwells ownservice of plate was scratched over ( graffito ) with achildish and weak semi-Indian, semi-Chinese desig

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Needlework as art . tol and Chester in 1780. (See Appendix.) In the reign of James I. it wasthe fashion to do portraits inneedlework, stitched flat or are artistic in design andexecution, but they are mostlyridiculously bad. The East India Company wasfounded in 1560, under Elizabeth,and obtained the monopoly of theAnglo-Indian trade, under Crom-well, in 1634. This would havebeen the moment for encouraging a fresh importation ofOriental taste into our degenerate art. Cromwells ownservice of plate was scratched over ( graffito ) with achildish and weak semi-Indian, semi-Chinese design;and we must accept this as typical of the artisticOriental knowledge of that day. Grafted on the styleof James I., it shows, however, that Indian ideas werecreeping in and sought for, if not understood in highplaces, under the auspices of the East India alone was excluded from all benefit. From They have a small but convenient hall in Gutter Lane.—Maitlands History of London, book iii. p. Fig. of Embroiderers Guild.

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