The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages: Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries |
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Page 36
... coloured hem or border , which would occasionally be variegated with slight embroidery . Shakspeare's description of the barge of Cleopatra when she embarked on the river Cydnus to meet Antony , poetical as it is , seems to be rigidly ...
... coloured hem or border , which would occasionally be variegated with slight embroidery . Shakspeare's description of the barge of Cleopatra when she embarked on the river Cydnus to meet Antony , poetical as it is , seems to be rigidly ...
Page 37
... colour'd fans , whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool , And what they undid , did . AGRIPPA . O , rare for Antony ! ENOBARBUS Her gentlewomen , like the Nereides , So many mermaids , tended her i ' the eyes ...
... colour'd fans , whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool , And what they undid , did . AGRIPPA . O , rare for Antony ! ENOBARBUS Her gentlewomen , like the Nereides , So many mermaids , tended her i ' the eyes ...
Page 38
... colours on the warp alone . Chairs and fauteuils of the most elegant form , made of ebony and other rare woods ... coloured wools , with silk and gold thread . The couches too , which in the daytime had a rich covering substituted for ...
... colours on the warp alone . Chairs and fauteuils of the most elegant form , made of ebony and other rare woods ... coloured wools , with silk and gold thread . The couches too , which in the daytime had a rich covering substituted for ...
Page 45
... colours in France after one sort , and among the Parthians after another . M. Varro writeth that within the temple of Sangus there continued unto the time that he wrote his booke the wooll that lady Tanaquil , other- wise named Caia ...
... colours in France after one sort , and among the Parthians after another . M. Varro writeth that within the temple of Sangus there continued unto the time that he wrote his booke the wooll that lady Tanaquil , other- wise named Caia ...
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... colours to be called Attalica . In Babylon they used much to weave their cloth of divers colours , and this was a great wear- ing amongst them , and cloths so wrought were called Babylonica . To weave cloth of tissue with twisted ...
... colours to be called Attalica . In Babylon they used much to weave their cloth of divers colours , and this was a great wear- ing amongst them , and cloths so wrought were called Babylonica . To weave cloth of tissue with twisted ...
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