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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ft, with St. Peter aboveHim and St. Paul below, a design which correspondswith that previously mentioned, as worked upon thealtar cloth of St. Sophia at Constantinople.* TheApostles were similarly figured on the vertical band, inthe centre of the back of the vestment. On this side,too, in its upper portion, worked in letters of gold andsilk, was the inscription :— * S. HUNGARORUM R. ET GILSA DILECTA SIBI CONJUX MITTUNT H.EC MUNERA DNO APOSTOLICO IOHANNE. Etienne, King of Hungary, and Gisela, his dearwife, sent this present to the Apostolic Lord John. The only Pope of the name of John, who was acontemporary of Etienne, was John XVIII., Pope from1003 to 1009 ; this vestment, therefore, dates from thebeginning of the eleventh century. Of this period, possibly, is a Greek embroidery * See p. 43. FROM THE CHRISTIAN ERA TO THE CRUSADES. 6j preserved in the treasury of St. Peters at Rome, andconsidered by connoisseurs of the present time as themost superb embroidery in the world. It is the
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Fig. 32.—The Imperial Dalmatic, preserved in St. Peters in Rome,side with the Representation of the Last Judgment. celebrated imperial dalmatic (fig. 32). The followingdescription of it is quoted chiefly from M. Ed. DidronsReport upon the Decorative Arts (1878). The foundation of the dalmatic is of blue silk, 68 I. EMBROIDERY. scattered over which are small crosses of gold andsilver within circles of gold (stauracis). Upon the back,front, and shoulders are figured various subjects which,considered together, intensify the unity of the ideathereon expressed, viz., the glory of Jesus Christ onearth and in heaven. The Transfiguration and theLast Judgment are depicted in two large centralroundels on the back and front respectively. On theshoulders are the sacraments of bread and w7ine.Lady Marian Alford gives a description of the em-broidery thus : It is done chiefly in gold, the draperiesin basket and laid stitches; the faces in white silk splitstitch, flat, with finely drawn outlines i

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