Textile Fabrics: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Church-Vestments, Dresses, Silk Stuffs, Needle-Work and Tapestries, Forming That Section of the Museum (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Daniel Rock

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330579852 ISBN 13 : 9781330579855

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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South Kenfington Mufeum, this extenfive one made from woven ftufF s, tapeftry, and needlework, is meant to have, like them, its own peculiar ufeful purpofes. Here, at a glance, may be read the hiftory of the loom of various times and in many lands. Here may be feen a proof of the onward march of trade and its confequent civilizing influences. Here we take a peep at thfe private female life in ages gone by, and learn how women, high-born and lowly, fpent or rather ennobled many a day of life in needlework, not merely graceful but artiftic. Here, in fine, in ftri taccordance with the intended induftrial purpofes of this public inftitution, artizans, defigners, and workers in all kinds of embroidery, may gather many an ufeful leflbn for their refpeilive crafts, in the rare as well as beautiful famples fet out before them. The materials out of which the articles in this collection were woven, are feverally wool, hemp, flax, cotton, filk, gold, and filver. The filken textures are in general wholly fo; in many inftances they are wrought up along with either cotton, or with flax ;hence, in ancient documents, the diftin6lion of holofericum, all filk, and fubfericum, not all filk, or the warp that is, the longitudinal threads of cotton or flax, and the woof that is the crofs-threads of filk. Very feldom is the gold or the gilt filver woven into thefe textiles found upon them in a folid wiredrawn form, but almoft always, after being flattened very thin, the precious metal was wound about a very fmall twift of cotton, or of flax, and thus became what we call gold thread. As a fubflitute for this, theM oors of Granada, and after them theS paniards of that kingdom, employed ftrips of gilded parchment, as we fhall have to notice.
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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330579852
• ISBN 13: 9781330579855
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 602
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