Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . Fig. 37.—Part of an orphrey em-broidered with a Jesse tree(fourteenth century). 84 I. EMBROIDERY. the figures and ornamentation, are distinctly analogousto those seen in fine stained glass and illuminated the fourteenth century. The tree in full leaf rises from. Fig. 38.—Tau-shaped orphrey of Greek embroidery, thirteenthcentury (in the Hochon collection). Abraham, an old man asleep below; between the inter-lacements of its leading bra
Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . Fig. 37.—Part of an orphrey em-broidered with a Jesse tree(fourteenth century). 84 I. EMBROIDERY. the figures and ornamentation, are distinctly analogousto those seen in fine stained glass and illuminated the fourteenth century. The tree in full leaf rises from. Fig. 38.—Tau-shaped orphrey of Greek embroidery, thirteenthcentury (in the Hochon collection). Abraham, an old man asleep below; between the inter-lacements of its leading branches are King David,Solomon, and the Virgin Mary; surmounting all is the THE CRUSADES TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 85 Crucifixion. The frequent appearance of this tree of thesacred genealogy of Jesus Christ is noticeable in em-broideries, stained glass windows, wall paintings, etc., ofthe period, and is a religious phase of that fashion forgenealogical trees to which the adoption of family ccatsof arms gave rise. The embroidery of the Spitzerorphrey is in silk upon satin. The satin is left for theparts which show as skin in the figures ; features, eyes,hair, and beards on it being embroidered with blacksilk in so closely pulled stitches as to be mistakenfor pen and ink lines. The background is of goldthread worked in Hungary point {point de Hongrie). Italy and Spain at this time were at a height of pros-perity in
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