Lacis, practical instructions in filet brodé or darning on net; . rials will produce the varied pleasures ofhope and disappointment, excitement and dejection, pleasureand despair, and finally, let us hope, the joy of victory. In looking back to the early centuries we see English-womens needlework renowned all over Christendom ; socelebrated was it that Opus Anglicanum was synonymouswith all that was best and most excellent, and we read how Pope Innocent IV., in1246, inquired wherecertain richly em-broidered orphreys weremade, and on being toldin England exclaimed : Truly England is ourgarden o
Lacis, practical instructions in filet brodé or darning on net; . rials will produce the varied pleasures ofhope and disappointment, excitement and dejection, pleasureand despair, and finally, let us hope, the joy of victory. In looking back to the early centuries we see English-womens needlework renowned all over Christendom ; socelebrated was it that Opus Anglicanum was synonymouswith all that was best and most excellent, and we read how Pope Innocent IV., in1246, inquired wherecertain richly em-broidered orphreys weremade, and on being toldin England exclaimed : Truly England is ourgarden of delight, insooth it is a well in-exhaustible, and wherethere is great abundance;from thence much maybe extracted. And heimmediately despatchedofficial letters to someof the Cistercian abbotsin England, enjoiningthem to procure a cer-tain quantity of suchembroidered vestmentsand send them to Romefor his own use. The Syon Cope, nowin the South KensingtonMuseum, is one of themost perfect examples ofour work in the thir-teenth century. It is,according to Dr Rock,. —The Creation. Lacis one of the most beautiful among the liturgical vestmentsof the olden period anywhere to be found in Christendom,
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