Needlework as art . ails are curious. The whole of theblue satin ground is worked with crosses of the design are so adorned with larger and smallerGreek crosses—and others with the starry cross. Onthe shoulder is once embroidered the mystic Rock says, Those who have seen, in the sacristy ofSt. Peters at Rome, that beautiful light-blue dalmaticsaid to have been worn by Charlemagne when he sangthe gospel at High Mass, at the altar vested as a deacon, 1 Appendix 4. Lord Lindsays History of Ecclesiastical Art, i. These gorgeous vestments are engraved by Sulpiz Boiss

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Needlework as art . ails are curious. The whole of theblue satin ground is worked with crosses of the design are so adorned with larger and smallerGreek crosses—and others with the starry cross. Onthe shoulder is once embroidered the mystic Rock says, Those who have seen, in the sacristy ofSt. Peters at Rome, that beautiful light-blue dalmaticsaid to have been worn by Charlemagne when he sangthe gospel at High Mass, at the altar vested as a deacon, 1 Appendix 4. Lord Lindsays History of Ecclesiastical Art, i. These gorgeous vestments are engraved by Sulpiz Boisseree inhis Kaiser Dalmatika in der St. Peterskirche, and far better by , in his splendid work on the Coronation Robes of the GermanEmperors. 2 It is singular that we find the starry cross and the zwastika fillingalternate square spaces on the mantle of Achilles—playing at dice withAjax—on a celebrated Greeic vase in the Etruscan Museum at theVatican. I have referred to this design elsewhere. (Plate 26.). ;lemagnes IThe Vatican. Rom

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