item: #1 of 5
          id: 20386
      author: Christie, Grace
       title: Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
        date: None
       words: 48970
      flesch: 72
     summary: Loosely woven linens can be obtained specially suitable for drawn thread work. DRAWN THREAD WORK In drawn work the question is how to treat the remaining warp threads after the weft has been withdrawn.
    keywords: century; colour; design; embroidery; end; example; fig; frame; gold; ground; hand; illustration; kind; left; line; material; method; needle; pattern; plate; point; right; shows; silk; stitch; stitches; thread; thread work; use; warp; way; weaving; work; working
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        item: #2 of 5
          id: 26151
      author: Candee, Helen Churchill
       title: The Tapestry Book
        date: None
       words: 74043
      flesch: 71
     summary: Tapestry works are as sensitive as the veriest exotic, and without the proper conditions fail and fade. And at this time the productions of great tapestries stopped.
    keywords: arras; art; artist; beauty; border; brussels; cartoons; century; charles; collection; colour; day; design; drawing; europe; eye; factory; fifteenth; figures; fine; flemish; france; french; gobelins; gothic; great; hand; hangings; history; illustration; interest; italy; king; lebrun; left; life; looms; louis; man; men; modern; museum; new; paris; perfection; place; renaissance; royal; series; set; sixteenth; tapestries; tapestry; tapestry factory; tapestry weaving; time; warp; weaver; weaving; work; woven; xiv; years; york
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        item: #3 of 5
          id: 31714
      author: Menzies, Sutherland, active 1840-1883
       title: The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries
        date: None
       words: 104770
      flesch: 64
     summary: Fashion in those days was not quite the chameleon-hued creature that she is at present; nor were the fabrics on which her fancy was displayed quite so light and airy: their gold _was_ gold--not silk covered with gilded silver; and consequently the raiment of those days, inwrought with slips of gold beaten thin and cut into spangles or strips, and sewed on in various patterns, sometimes intermingled with precious stones, would carry its own intrinsic value with it. One while the Englishmen rushed on, another while they fell back; one while the men from over sea charged onwards, and again at other times retreated.
    keywords: ages; arms; art; battle; beauty; bishop; book; castle; century; chapter; charles; church; circumstance; cloth; clothes; coat; colours; come; country; course; court; day; days; death; des; dress; duke; edward; elizabeth; embroidery; end; england; english; fair; family; fashion; father; female; field; figures; fine; flowers; following; form; france; french; garments; general; gentle; god; gold; golden; good; great; hair; half; hall; hand; hangings; harold; hath; having; head; henry; history; hodge; holy; honour; house; john; kind; king; knight; ladies; lady; large; lay; left; les; life; light; linen; lord; love; man; mantle; mary; means; men; mind; mother; nature; near; needlewoman; needlework; new; order; page; patterns; people; period; person; picture; pieces; place; point; pope; present; prince; purple; queen; rank; reign; robes; romance; round; royal; second; service; set; silk; silver; sir; skill; sort; state; stitch; stones; subject; tapestries; tapestry; taste; thou; thought; thread; thy; time; use; value; walls; way; white; wife; william; women; world; year
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        item: #4 of 5
          id: 41717
      author: Huish, Marcus B. (Marcus Bourne)
       title: Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries Second Edition
        date: None
       words: 36572
      flesch: 73
     summary: There are seven girls now in the school working samplers to be framed. Figs. 35, 36 Stem-stitch, 150 Stitchery of tapestry pictures, 143; of samplers, 161 Stitches, background, 144; cushion, 144; tent, 144; Gobelin, 145; upright, 145; Florentine, 145; Hungary, 145; satin, 146; open, 146; buttonhole, 146; eyelet, 149 (Fig. 63); split, 152 (Figs. 65, 66); stem, 150; knot, 151; looped, 152; plush, 153; purl, 153; passing, 154; lace, sampler stitches, 154; hollie point, 157 (Fig. 61); cut and drawn-work, 161; back-stitch, 163 (Fig. 75); alphabet-stitch, 164; darning-stitch, 165 (Plate XXIV.
    keywords: age; art; author; border; century; century sampler; collection; date; design; eighteenth; elizabeth; embroideries; embroidery; english; fashion; fig; figs; figures; following; form; illustration; instance; interest; little; mary; mrs; needlework; period; pictures; piece; plate; portion; queen; sampler; silk; specimens; stitch; stitches; tapestry; time; work; work sampler; years
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        item: #5 of 5
          id: 57518
      author: San Francisco Museum of Art
       title: Catalogue of the Retrospective Loan Exhibition of European Tapestries
        date: None
       words: 28410
      flesch: 71
     summary: Illustrated: _Destrée, Catalogue of same_, pl. XXIV.] _Printed by_ TAYLOR & TAYLOR, _San Francisco.
    keywords: art; background; border; brussels; century; collection; color; company; design; figures; footnote; france; french; gobelins; gothic; great; history; illustration; life; paris; period; piece; renaissance; scenes; series; set; sidenote; silk; tapestries; tapestry; time; van; weavers; wool; work
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