Tag: Embroidery designs

fermeli, Palikar, costume, Greek, Embroidery,

Portion of a rich fermeli, or upper jacket, which was included in a complete suit of elaborate Palikar costume.

Ornamentation of hangings and stuffs. Embroidery and designs for inlaying. Middle ages.

Auguste Racinet, Ornamentation, designs, hangings, Embroidery, inlaying, Middle ages,

Polychromatic ornament by Auguste Racinet. THIS plate contains twenty-two examples of the ornamentation of hangings and stuffs, all of them remarkable for simplicity of design.

Embroidered Fukusa. Japan ornamental arts. Silk and gold brocade.

2/25/20

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Japan embroidery. Fukusa. Border with silk and gold brocade executed in opus plumarium stitches. The ornamental arts of Japan by George Ashdown Audsley.

Opus Anglicanum. The Syon Cope. Ecclesiastical needlework.

12/24/19

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Syon Cope, Opus Anglicanum, ecclesiastical, needlework, middle ages,

The Syon Cope.
A fine example of the ecclesiastical needlework for which England was noted in the thirteenth century; presented to the Duke of Northumberland by refugee nuns from Portugal, to whose convent it belonged, and whom he sheltered at Syon House during the Continental troubles of the early nineteenth century.

Textiles and Embroidery during the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods.

11/25/19

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Embroidered, Stool, Covers, Hardwick Hall, England, Tudor, Stuart,

Art in England during the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods. Textiles and Embroidery by Aymer Vallance. CHAPTER V:-TEXTILES AND EMBROIDERY.

The “Pembroke” tapestry. Tapestry weaving in England. Tudor 16th c.

10/30/19

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Tapestry, England, Tudor, Earl, Pembroke, Armorial,

The “Pembroke” tapestry at V&A Museum, contains the armorial bearings of Sir William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke in the style known as “grotesque”.

Indian Elephant Trapping produced at Murshidabad, India.

9/19/19

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Indian, Elephant, Trapping, Nawab, Nazim, Murshidabad

The style and character of these elaborate objects admirably illustrate the Oriental splendor with which the native princes make their visits of pomp, and their progresses of parade.

Italian embroidered silk hangings. The treasury of ornamental art. 16th c.

7/19/19

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Renaissance, Italian, embroidery, silk hangings, 16th century,

THIS engraving shows the upper and lower portions of a vertical panel, supposed to have originally formed a pilaster or border to a piece of tapestry.