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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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Egyptian Painted and Embroidered Linen. The cone, the bead, the daisy, thewave, the lotus under water, are all shown on this fragment. Page 93-
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Woven and embroidered on a Sleeve. 2. Woven and embroidered. 3. Painted andembroidered. Egyptian Tapestry. Page 93. Patterns. 93 snakes, birds heads on long necks, lizards, dogs, dragons,and the like.1 They well understood how to make apattern by the repetition of objects of any class. Representations of human figures in embroideriesprobably originated in hangings for the wall ; but havebeen treated as decorative forms, both by the Indiansand the Greeks, for wearing apparel. The peplos ofMinerva was bordered with fighting gods and giants,and the Empress Theodoras dress in the Ravenna mosaicrepeats exactly the same motive. (See Fig. 4, and PI. 6.) There are two other examples of such Greek patterns.The mantle of Demeter on a Greek vase in the BritishMuseum, of the best period (PI. 16), is embroidered withflying genii and victorious chariots ; and the embroideredmantle lately found in a Crimean tomb, is of precisely thesame style of design, and the one illustrates the other.These instan

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