Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . e monuments erected by them in Toledoand other towns of their conquest. It is not astonishing,therefore, that at the same time Persian embroideryshould penetrate as far as Andalusia. Almeria, like Palermo, had its Hoteldes Tiraz, which rivalledthe Hotel des Tiraz atBagdad. The term tirazwas for a long timein use in the Spanishlanguage, and was thegeneric name for orna-mental tissues and cos-tumes made with Spaniards ex-celled in stu
Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . e monuments erected by them in Toledoand other towns of their conquest. It is not astonishing,therefore, that at the same time Persian embroideryshould penetrate as far as Andalusia. Almeria, like Palermo, had its Hoteldes Tiraz, which rivalledthe Hotel des Tiraz atBagdad. The term tirazwas for a long timein use in the Spanishlanguage, and was thegeneric name for orna-mental tissues and cos-tumes made with Spaniards ex-celled in stuffs of velvetraised on satin, inwovenwith strands of goldand silver. Their de-signs have all theboldness and Oriental Fig. 39.—Embroidery ot the fourteenth character which Onecentury (in the Hochon collection). alsQ finds ^ Cordovan decorative leathers. The colours in both are the same;and gold is cunningly used in conjunction with sombretones, enhancing their effects with the utmost felicity, Sometimes, however, beaten gold, when introducedin these textiles, was made to assume the shape of smallplaques or thin plates of gold, upon which would be. THE CRUSADES TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 87 mounted several rows of pearls. But this evidentabuse of the metal in its relation with a textile couldnot last long; and these inappropriate golden plaqueswere speedily modified into spangles, those pretty littlediscs of gold, silver, or polished steel used in certainclasses of embroider}^ for dainty glinting Saracens are credited with the invention ofspangles ; and, following their example, the Spaniardsmade free use of them in much of their ornamentalneedlework. One extremely remarkable specimen of
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