--Ancient
carpets--English and French hangings--Rules for designs
of hangings 260

CHAPTER VIII.--FURNITURE.

Penelope's couch--Chaldean furnished house--The bed--Earl
of Leicester's inventories--State apartment of Alessandri
Palace--Indian embroideries for furniture--The sofa and
chair--The footstool--Furniture stitches--The table
cover--The screen--Book covers--Morris on furniture 280

CHAPTER IX.--DRESS.

Art of dress--Ancient splendour--Persian, Greek, and
Roman--Indian--Homeric--Early Christian--Charlemagne's
mantle and robe--Objects of dress--Embroidered garments 294

CHAPTER X.--ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY.

Christian art--Dark ages--Greek and Roman ecclesiastical
dress--Northern influence--Continuity of ecclesiastical
art--Authorities--Anglo-Saxon orthodox colours--Veils of
the Temple--Hangings in Pagan temples and Christian
churches--Russian use of veils--Art in the early Church--
Rare examples--Destruction by the iconoclasts--Early
embroiderers--Empress Helena--Bertha, mother of
Charlemagne--His dalmatic--Pluvial of St. Silvester--Pluvial
of museum at Bologna--Daroca cope--Cope of Boniface VIII.--
Style of the twelfth century--Mantle of St. Stephen of
Hungary--Kunigunda's work for Henry II.--The Romanesque--
Movement perfecting Gothic art, thirteenth century--Opus
Anglicanum--Syon cope--Embroidery on the stamp--Pictures in
flat stitches--Flemish work--Renaissance--Work of some royal
ladies--French--Spanish--Sicilian and Neapolitan--German
work--Sacred symbolism--Melito's "The Key"--Mystical
colours--Prehistoric cross--Many forms of the cross--The
roes--The chrysoclavus--Modern decoration--Principles and
motives for church embroideries--The altar-cloth--The
reredos--The pulpit and reading-desk--The ancient
Paschal--The banner of St. Cuthbert--The fringe--Lay
heraldry of the Church--South Kensington Museum 303

CHAPTER XI.--ENGLISH EMBROIDERY.

First glimpse of art in England--Dyeing and weaving in
Britain in early times--Caesar's invasion--Roman
civilization--Anglo-Saxon times and art--Adhelme's
poem--Icelandic Sagas--Saga or story of Thorgunna--English
work in the eighth century--The Benedictines--Durham
embroideries--Aelfled--St. Dunstan--Queen Emma's
work--William of Poitou--The Bayeux tapestry--Abbess of
Markgate--Gif