Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . , but now fast disappearing before the relentlesscurrent of modern customs. Breton waistcoats, Normancaps, Alsatian coifs glistening with gold, have been soughtfor and obtained in France and abroad by intelligentcollectors, who prize them for their excellence as objectsof study and as remains of local art stamped withoriginality and character (figs. 47 and 80). Under a cultivated guidance skilful embroiderershave zealously reproduced well-ch
Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . , but now fast disappearing before the relentlesscurrent of modern customs. Breton waistcoats, Normancaps, Alsatian coifs glistening with gold, have been soughtfor and obtained in France and abroad by intelligentcollectors, who prize them for their excellence as objectsof study and as remains of local art stamped withoriginality and character (figs. 47 and 80). Under a cultivated guidance skilful embroiderershave zealously reproduced well-chosen, genuine, andtypical specimens of old-time embroidery (fig. 76).Encouraged by success in this direction, and emulatingmethods in vogue during the best epochs of em- FROM LOUTS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 165 broidery, all who have seriously engaged their talentsin producing ornamental broideries for furniture orcostume, have at length ventured into the confines ofthe higher branches of the art. Chasuble-makers now produce ecclesiastical orna-ments worthy to be used in our cathedrals side byside with the scarce relics preserved from the despoiling. Fig. 76.—Reproduction of a sixteenth century embroidery in gold andcoloured silks, by M. Henry. touch of revolutions. The mitre, figured with theCrucifixion (fig. 78), wrought in feather stitch withcoloured silks upon a tissue of gold and enriched withpearls, and the peacock-blue rep cover, set with crystalbosses, for the Papal Bull of the Immaculate Conception(fig. 79), are works which reflect honour upon ourtime. Tapestry-weavers and upholsterers make coverings 166 I. EMBROIDERY. and embroideries for furniture incomparably superiorin design and suitability to those twenty years ago.* But more marked improvements are seen in fancywork. Instead of the conventional square of canvascovered with a cross-stitch parrot or a horrible Fig. Small screen of modern embroidery, by M. Henry. little dog, work of charming design and good w
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