. History of lace . worked with closeembroidery—the threads drawn and fashioned with a needlein various forms—or the ends of the cloth unravelled andplaited with geometric precision. To judge from the description of the linen grave-clothesof St. Cuthbert,^ as given Ijy an eye-witness to his disinter-ment in the twelfth century, they were ornamented in <amanner similar to that we have described. There hadbeen, says the chronicler, put over him a sheet . . thissheet had a fringe of linen thread of a fingers length; uponits sides and ends were woven a border of projectingworkmanship fabricated
. History of lace . worked with closeembroidery—the threads drawn and fashioned with a needlein various forms—or the ends of the cloth unravelled andplaited with geometric precision. To judge from the description of the linen grave-clothesof St. Cuthbert,^ as given Ijy an eye-witness to his disinter-ment in the twelfth century, they were ornamented in <amanner similar to that we have described. There hadbeen, says the chronicler, put over him a sheet . . thissheet had a fringe of linen thread of a fingers length; uponits sides and ends were woven a border of projectingworkmanship fabricated of the thread itself, bearing thefigures of birds and beasts so arranged that between e^erytwo pairs there were interwoven among them the representa-tion of a branching tree which divides the figures. Thistree, so tastefully depicted, appears to be putting forth its ^ Translated from the LihcUnK tic of Reginald, monk of J )urluiin, by beati CutJihcrti Mnacnlia J. Rain. Durham, 1855. Plate Italian Bobbin JIkseau.
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