Catalogue of a collection of old embroideries of the Greek islands and Turkey . ^USl/l LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS William Bateson, Esq., LlONEL BENSON. Mrs. Theodore Bent. Professor Robert C. Bosanquet. Mrs. E. P. Boys-Smith. Mrs. C. B. Britten. Mrs. Burdon Muller.*T. B. Clarke-Thornhill.*Sir Arthur H. Church, , *A. M. Daniel, Esq. R. M. Dawkins, Esq. Guy Dickins, Esq. The Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. Lady Egerton.#Captain Richard Ford. F. W. Hasluck, Esq. T. E. Hodgkin, Esq. E. G. Howarth, Esq. #Sir William Lawrence, Bart.#Rev. William MacGregor. The Governo
Catalogue of a collection of old embroideries of the Greek islands and Turkey . ^USl/l LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS William Bateson, Esq., LlONEL BENSON. Mrs. Theodore Bent. Professor Robert C. Bosanquet. Mrs. E. P. Boys-Smith. Mrs. C. B. Britten. Mrs. Burdon Muller.*T. B. Clarke-Thornhill.*Sir Arthur H. Church, , *A. M. Daniel, Esq. R. M. Dawkins, Esq. Guy Dickins, Esq. The Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. Lady Egerton.#Captain Richard Ford. F. W. Hasluck, Esq. T. E. Hodgkin, Esq. E. G. Howarth, Esq. #Sir William Lawrence, Bart.#Rev. William MacGregor. The Governors of the Manchester Whitworth Institute. Professor Percy F. Newberry. F. W. Percival, Esq.#W. G. Rawlinson, Esq. Sub-Lieutenant H. L. Rendel, J. B. Wace, Esq. * Contributors whose names are marked thus are Members of the Club, INTRODUCTION GREEK EMBROIDERIES. N the Greek Islands the art of embroidery is now dead. Itseems to have become extinct during the nineteenth cent-ury, but in some remote islands—for instance Astypalaea,Nisyros, and Telos—undoubtedly lasted much longer thanin others. That it lived so long in some islands is due totheir having been till recently under Turkish rule, and to their isolationfrom the blessings of civilisation. It is civilisation—that is to say thecivilisation of Western Europe—with the spread of education and theincrease in trade and communication, that has killed this exceedingly inter-esting specimen of Greek Arts and Crafts. Its decline seems indeed to havebegun in the eighteenth century, for towards the end of that century insome of the Cyclades the women gave up wearing their home-made andhome-embroidered frocks of native silk and linen in favour of dresses of theItalian and French brocades then fashionable. At the beginning of thenineteenth century the Napoleonic wars seriously injured the Lev
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