. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. Plate IX—linglish crewel wurk of tlie seventeenth eentiiry. Ilate \ ;lisli ciisliioM cover in crenels [??.inhroidcrcd in coloured worsteds on Iwiil iiroiuid Modern rc])roductioii I II EMEKOIUERIES embroidery is mostly in gold, the drajieries being executed in basketweave and laid stitches. The faces are in whit
. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. Plate IX—linglish crewel wurk of tlie seventeenth eentiiry. Ilate \ ;lisli ciisliioM cover in crenels [??.inhroidcrcd in coloured worsteds on Iwiil iiroiuid Modern rc])roductioii I II EMEKOIUERIES embroidery is mostly in gold, the drajieries being executed in basketweave and laid stitches. The faces are in white silk split-stitch, flatand outlined in black silk. The hair, the shadowy jjart of the draperies,and the clouds are in especially fine gold and silver thread with darkoutlines. A noteworthy featui-e of the patterned background is thecrosses inside of circles. SICILIAN In the twelfth centin-y the Sicilian city of Palermo, underthe Normans, rivalled Byzantium (Constantinople) as the worldsembroidery and weave centre. JMie styles were largely Saracenicbecause of the many IVIohanunedan workmen employed. One of themagnificent coronation robes at Vienna, embroidered in gold with adate 2)alm, and two lions attacking camels, and enriched with jjcarlsand tiny enamelled plaques, bears an Arabic inscription stating thatit was made in t
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