The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . ers for depilation were objects of importanceand frequently occur in the tombs of both shears are of the pattern used still for clippingsheep. The comb, in forms taken over from theRomans, is as a rule very common, though appar-ently rare in Burgundian quarters. It was madeof bone or ivory but sometimes also of wood, andits absence in certain regions has been explainedon the supposition that the more perishable materialhad there been in fashion. The combs are some-times ornamented with carving but as a rule theenrichment consists in l
The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . ers for depilation were objects of importanceand frequently occur in the tombs of both shears are of the pattern used still for clippingsheep. The comb, in forms taken over from theRomans, is as a rule very common, though appar-ently rare in Burgundian quarters. It was madeof bone or ivory but sometimes also of wood, andits absence in certain regions has been explainedon the supposition that the more perishable materialhad there been in fashion. The combs are some-times ornamented with carving but as a rule theenrichment consists in little more than incised cir-cles. The best ones have a double row of teeth,and an ingenious casing is sometimes specimen at Brussels figured in fig. ]6 is oneof the most complete in existence. Little bronze workboxes and caskets of otherkinds sometimes occur, and are well represented inthe Faussett collection at Liverpool. Very largebeads of variegated glass, amber, or rock-crystal,have probably been used as spindle whorls. PLATE XX. 77
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