Cantor lectures on the arts of tapestry making and embroidery ..delivered before the Society, April 5th, 12th and 19th, 1886 . ng duck—whilst from the extremity of the back risesa device suggestive of an upturned , then, whatever may be its origin, isno mere arrangement of lines to producean abstract form; it possesses a distinctmeaning, notwithstanding that its value inrepresenting a bird is somewhat rectangular renderings of animals isfurnished by tent stitch embroidery from 5 Anatolia. Many shapes in woven textilesand carpets from Tartar tribes have becomeso contor
Cantor lectures on the arts of tapestry making and embroidery ..delivered before the Society, April 5th, 12th and 19th, 1886 . ng duck—whilst from the extremity of the back risesa device suggestive of an upturned , then, whatever may be its origin, isno mere arrangement of lines to producean abstract form; it possesses a distinctmeaning, notwithstanding that its value inrepresenting a bird is somewhat rectangular renderings of animals isfurnished by tent stitch embroidery from 5 Anatolia. Many shapes in woven textilesand carpets from Tartar tribes have becomeso contorted by the special process in whichthey have been rendered, that one loses traceof their having started originally from abstractforms or from the representation of actualthings. The same characteristic is observable in certain classes of ornament made by strictMohammedans, whose reverence for religiousdoctrines prevents them from actually depict-ing living objects. The orderly arrangementof the odd-shaped details, however, predomi-nates, and gives them value as reverting to the monotony which makes Fig. North German Embroidery, ? iGth Century. one wish for change, and applying this feelingin respect of a primitive ornamentistwho had gotns tar as making a pattern like A of Fig. 5, we Fig. 5.
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