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Title: Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Lefébure, Ernest, b. 1835 Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934
Subjects: Lace and lace making Embroidery
Publisher: London, H. Grevel
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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28 I. EMBROIDERY. According to Virgils JEneid, the son of Anchisesgave valorous Cleanthes, victor in afight, a splendid robe described as a chlamys of golden web, borderedwith double meanders in purple.Upon the web was embroidered theson of Tros in a forest, javelin inhand, chasing a fleet hart. Heburns with ardour and pants forbreath, when suddenly Joves bird,swooping from the summit of MountIda, seizes him in its claws and bearshim away to the heavens. The spreading and luxurious useof embroideries did not escape theprotests of the moralists in ancienttimes. Diodorus Siculus recordsthat Zaleucus, a Locrian legislator,would only sanction the wearing ofembroideries by courtesans. Theprophet Ezekiel reproached womenwith overburdening their \ dresses with embroidery. =—^ The Babylonians.—Still
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Fig. 18 — Egyptian bronze statue in the riches 0f Persia, India,the museum at Athens. Egypt, Chaldaea, Assyria,Babylon, and Phoenicia diffused themselves more andmore. Babylon particularly was a centre for the pro-duction of most sumptuous embroideries. We havenoticed that the veil of the Temple was a Babyloniancurtain (ireifKo^ BaftvXoovio1;), an expression whichconstantly appears in the writings of ancient authors. THE EMBROIDERY OF ANTIQUITY. Aristobulus, when describing the tomb of Cyrus, speaksof the great kings body in a golden coffin, whichwas placed upon a bed of goldcuriously wrought, the cover-let whereof was of magnifi-cent Babylonian fabric, gor-geously embroidered. At Athens the statue ofPallas Athenae, sculptured byPhidias for the Parthenon,stood in front of an em-broidered drapery, hung be-tween the columns at theback.* Every four years itwas renewed, and at thePanathenaic festival the peplosof the goddess was carried inprocession. This peplos con-sisted of a large sq

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