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Title: Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Lefébure, Ernest, b. 1835 Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934
Subjects: Lace and lace making Embroidery
Publisher: London, H. Grevel
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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derived fromthose of the towns Gaza and Mosul. THE EMBROIDERY OF ANTIQUITY. 33 names.* During the times of which we have beenwriting, a vast commerce in elegant luxuries, like thesegauzy textiles, had evi-dently been pursued.Ancient sculptures repre-sent dancers draped intissues of this character,the folds and embroi-deries of which are sosubtly indicated in thesculptures by very lighttouches that at first sightone concludes that thefigures represented are al-most absolutely nude. Lu-can mentions these gauzesin his descriptions of thefestivals provided by Cleo-patra at her Alexandrinepalace in honour of Caesar,and particularly of hisrival Antony, f Lightgauzes were also used forveils. With Orientalgauzes opulent dames ofRome wreathed their — heads upon going to the FiS- 23.—Pallas Athenae (from a Greek vase in the Louvre). temple, and named such drapery flammeum. The flammeum was even used by * Sir George Birdwoods The Industrial Arts of India, vol. ii., P- 93- f Lucan, Book X. 3
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34 I. EMBROIDERY. t,wA*vv» early Christians, for one of their first authors, in thereign of Tiberius, criticises the coquetry of women whenthey attended public worship in wearing these head veils,perfectly transparent and slightly ornamented withembroidery. These veils were the prototypes of themantillas at present worn by womenin southern countries of Europe. Phrygia.—From the shores ofPhrygia, Asiatic and Babylonianembroideries were shipped forGreece and Italy. The Romansdenominated such embroideriesphrygionce, and the embroidererphrygio. Stuffs woven with goldwere called chrysoclavum, * or auro-clavum^ but golden embroiderieswere specified as auriphrygium.This word is the root of the Frenchword orfroi, a title commonly appliedto the golden bands which adorn _ ■ -F- copes, chasubles, and other ecclesi- Fig. 24.—Figure from astical vestments. an Etruscan tomb at -pi 1 c .1 1 Vulci I he greater number 01 the early embroideries used in Greece and at Rome came, as a rule, from As

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