Needlework as ArtSampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886 - 422 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة vii
... especially to embroidered hangings , furniture , dress , and the smaller objects of luxury . Circumstances have , since then , obliged me to recon- sider this intention ; and I have found it more practicable to cast the information ...
... especially to embroidered hangings , furniture , dress , and the smaller objects of luxury . Circumstances have , since then , obliged me to recon- sider this intention ; and I have found it more practicable to cast the information ...
الصفحة x
... especially to Mr. Villiers Stuart , Dr. Anderson , Sir G. Birdwood , and Sir H. Layard , for their courtesy in allowing me the use of their plates . To my old and valued friend , Mr. Newton , I wish to express my gratitude for his ...
... especially to Mr. Villiers Stuart , Dr. Anderson , Sir G. Birdwood , and Sir H. Layard , for their courtesy in allowing me the use of their plates . To my old and valued friend , Mr. Newton , I wish to express my gratitude for his ...
الصفحة 13
... especially with their needle ) to adorn their own persons , their children , and their homes ; and if their art is not high , it yet has the power to elevate them . While the most ambitious women try a higher flight , into the regions ...
... especially with their needle ) to adorn their own persons , their children , and their homes ; and if their art is not high , it yet has the power to elevate them . While the most ambitious women try a higher flight , into the regions ...
الصفحة 14
... especially on embroidery . I suppose it is the same in all subjects of human speculation which are worthy of serious study ; and therefore I ought not to have been surprised to find how much has already been written on needlework and ...
... especially on embroidery . I suppose it is the same in all subjects of human speculation which are worthy of serious study ; and therefore I ought not to have been surprised to find how much has already been written on needlework and ...
الصفحة 27
... especially in the minor arts . ' But this is owing to the Hindu being equally endowed with assimilative and receptive capacity , so that in the hands of the Indian craftsman everything assumes the dis- tinctive expression of ancient ...
... especially in the minor arts . ' But this is owing to the Hindu being equally endowed with assimilative and receptive capacity , so that in the hands of the Indian craftsman everything assumes the dis- tinctive expression of ancient ...
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adorned ancient Art Needlework artistic Assyrian Atrebates Auberville Babylonian Bayeux tapestry beautiful Birdwood Bock's border British Museum broidery called carpets Celtic chasuble Chinese Christian Church cloth colours conventional cope covered craft cross curtains dalmatic dress dyes early ecclesiastical effect Egypt Egyptian embroidered embroidery England English Europe fabrics feathers figures flat flax flowers forms fringe garments give gold golden Gothic Greek hangings Henry Henry VIII imitation India Indian Italian Italy King lace ladies linen looms lotus Louis Quatorze mantle Marco Polo materials mediæval motive needle needlework opus opus Anglicanum Oriental original ornament orphreys painted pattern Persian plate Pliny probably purple Queen robes Rock's Roman Rome satin says scarlet sculpture Semper silk silver sixteenth century Spain Spanish specimens splendid stitches style symbolism tapestry taste textile textile art thirteenth century thread tissues tomb traditions velvet vestments weaving wool woollen woven Yates
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الصفحة 303 - The king's daughter is all glorious within: Her clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: The virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
الصفحة 34 - Fair wreaths had the maidens, and the youths daggers of gold hanging from silver baldrics. And now would they run round with deft feet exceeding lightly, as when a potter sitting by his wheel that fitteth between his hands maketh trial of it whether it run : and now anon they would run in lines to meet each other. And a great company stood round the lovely dance in joy...
الصفحة 290 - Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
الصفحة 11 - Her in the palace, at her loom she found; The golden web her own sad story crown'd, The Trojan wars she weaved (herself the prize) And the dire triumphs of her fatal eyes.
الصفحة 406 - ... piscis which encloses Our Saviour. The two compositions representing the Institution of the Eucharist, on the shoulders, are better executed and more original. In each of them, Our Saviour, a stiff but majestic figure, stands behind the altar, on which are deposited a chalice and a paten or basket containing crossed wafers. He gives, in the one case, the cup to S. Paul, in the other the bread to S. Peter, — they do not kneel, but bend reverently to receive it ; five other disciples await their...
الصفحة 34 - Also did the glorious lame god devise a dancing-place like unto that which once in wide Knosos Daidalos wrought for Ariadne of the lovely tresses. There were youths dancing and maidens of costly wooing, their hands upon one another's wrists. Fine linen the maidens had on, and the youths well-woven doublets faintly glistening with oil Fair wreaths had the maidens, and the youths daggers of gold hanging from silver baldrics. And now would they run round with deft feet exceeding lightly, as when...
الصفحة 273 - It is the history of the attainment of self-conscious freedom by the human spirit manifested in the European races. It is no mere political mutation, no new fashion of art, no restoration of classical standards of taste. The arts and the inventions, the knowledge and the books which suddenly became vital at the time of the Renaissance, had long lain neglected on the shores of the dead sea which we call the Middle Ages.
الصفحة 405 - It is a large robe of stiff brocade, falling in broad and unbroken folds in front and behind, broad and deep enough for the Goliath-like stature and the Herculean chest of Charlemagne himself. On the breast the Saviour is represented in glory ; on the back, the Transfiguration ; and on the two shoulders, Christ administering the Eucharist to the apostles. In each of these last compositions our Saviour, a stiff but...
الصفحة 261 - Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
الصفحة 11 - Here, as the queen revolved with careful eyes The various textures and the various dyes, She chose a veil that shone superior far, And glow'd refulgent as the morning star.