Identifier: needleworkasart00alfo (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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English Specimens of Spanish Work. Time of Henry VIII. Lord MiddletonsCollection. Page 3S2. PI. 82.
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English Specimen. Spanish Work. Henry VIII. Louisa, Lady WaterfordsCollection. Page 383. English Embroidery. 3S3 detailed description of the golden tent in which themonarchs met, and which gave its name ever after to theplain near Guisnes, where the jousts were held. What weread of its construction recalls the Alexandrian erections,of which I have spoken already, as well as their hang-ings and embroideries. Incrustations of pearls and precious stones gave adazzling brilliancy to the tent, divided into many rooms,and adapted to the climate of the north. It covereda space of 328 feet. Hall describes the tent, thejousts, and the splendid apparel belonging to this lastchapter of the magnificence of chivalry. Brewer remarksthat magnificence was, in those days, often supposed tobe synonymous with magnanimity (at any rate, it waserected into a royal virtue). The Mediaeval Age, hesays, had gathered up its departing energies for this lastdisplay of its favourite pastime, henceforth to be consi

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