Needlework as art . pe is portrayed sitting by herhaute-lisse frame. I also refer the reader to the illus-tration from the Rheims tapestries, in which a mediaevalartist shows the Blessed Virgin weaving at one that ishorizontal or basse-lisse. (PL 47.) For the best information I have been able to obtainregarding tapestry weaving, I must acknowledge myindebtedness to M. Albert Castels Bibliotheque desMerveilles. 2 He has given great care to the considera-tion of this subject, and has collected good evidencesto prove his conclusions, which I willingly accept enbloc. Of course he has chiefly dealt
Needlework as art . pe is portrayed sitting by herhaute-lisse frame. I also refer the reader to the illus-tration from the Rheims tapestries, in which a mediaevalartist shows the Blessed Virgin weaving at one that ishorizontal or basse-lisse. (PL 47.) For the best information I have been able to obtainregarding tapestry weaving, I must acknowledge myindebtedness to M. Albert Castels Bibliotheque desMerveilles. 2 He has given great care to the considera-tion of this subject, and has collected good evidencesto prove his conclusions, which I willingly accept enbloc. Of course he has chiefly dealt with the Frenchbranch of the art, and with the Flemish, from which itimmediately descends. He begins, however, by quotingPliny, to prove the antiquity of weaving, and gives a verseof Martials to this effect: Thou owest this work to the See DeChampeaux, South Kensington Museum Art Handbook, 187S.* Bibliotheque des Merveilles (sur les Tapisseries), publie sous ladirection de M. Edouard Charton, a Paris, 1876. Pi. Portion of a Tapestry Hanging. Cathedral. Rheims. The Vat a basse-lisse frame. lrgin weaves and embroidersPage 236. Stitches. 237 land of Memphis, where the slay of the Nile has van-quished the needle of Babylon. Homer makes Helen weave the story of the siege ofTroy; this may have been partly embroidered ; andthere are some pieces of woven tapestry introduced mostingeniously into the web of a linen shirt or garment, ofwhich the sleeve is in the Egyptian department of theBritish Museum, proving that figures were picturedby weaving quite as early as the date of Troy, andunmistakably finished with the needle (Plate 18); atany rate, as early as the days of Homer. Arachnes webwas interwoven with figures. She and Minerva rivalledeach other in ingenious design and perfect description of the beautiful hangings they wove, theglorious colours with their tenderly graduated tints, andthe graceful borders, appear to be almost prophetic of thehighest efforts of the
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