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Title: Needlework as art
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess, 1817-1888
Subjects: Embroidery Needlework
Publisher: London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
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ng the flat and lace stitches (plate 41). Sempers term, mosaic stitches, is a good one, as itcovers all that are relegated into patterns in small squarespaces, counted by the threads of the textile on whichthey are laid.3 He believes that the mosaic patterns and 1 In the Museum at Munich are two remarkable examples of theseimitations. There is an embroidered badge of the Order of the Dragon,worked in gold and woven over with coloured silks, so as to present theappearance of enamel (sixteenth century). The second is a dress for aherald of the Order of St. Hubertus, which is richly embroidered ingold and silver, and the badge and collar are imitated in the mostextraordinary manner, and laid on entirely in gold needlework. This isof the seventeenth century. 2 In Salts collection fiom Saccarah (British Museum); also at Turin,in the Egyptian Museum; and in the collections in the Louvre, figuredby Auberville in the Ornamentation des Tissus. 8 Hence the French name, pointcs comptecs. PI. 41.
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€>gg!#IgIg^«SlMi Italian Pattern, sixteenth century. From Frida Lipperheides Musterbuch. 2. Scan-dinavian. Bock, i. taf. xi. 3. Egyptian. From Aubervilles Tissus, p. 1. Mosaic Stitches. Page 204. Stitches. 205 cross stitches in needlework preceded the tesselatedpavements, and formed their first motive, though thestitch now refers itself back to the mosaic, at least inname. It is remarkable that in Chaldea and Assyria therestill exist some ruined walls, which are adorned withpilasters, panels, and other architectural forms, coveredwith some sort of encaustic, imitating textile patterns.1The effect is produced by means of a kind of mosaicwork of small nails or wedges of baked clay, with chinaor glazed coloured heads. These are inlaid into theunbaked clay or earth, of which the walls are constructed,and while binding it together, give the effect of thesurface being hung with a material which has a patternworked all over in cross stitch. The Chinese, the Chaldeans, and the Assyrians

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