ts to Pope Adrian IV.--Robes of Thomas a
Becket at Sens--Innocent III.--English pre-eminence in
needlework from the Conquest to the Reformation--John
Garland on hand-looms--Blode-bendes and lacs d'amour--Opus
Anglicanum--English peculiarities in ecclesiastical
design--Penalties against luxury in dress--Protection the
bane of art--Dunstable pall--Stoneyhurst cope--Destruction
of fine works at the Reformation--Much on the Continent,
much collected in our old Catholic houses--Field of the
Cloth of Gold--Mary Tudor's Spanish stitches--Queen
Elizabeth's embroideries--Institution of Embroiderers'
Company--East India Company--Oriental taste discouraged on
Protectionist grounds--Decay of the art in England--Style
of James I.--Dutch style--Cushion stitches--Miss Linwood--
Miss Moritt--Mrs. Delany--Mrs. Pawsey--Postscript--Revival
of the art of needlework--"Royal School of Art Needlework" 356

APPENDIX

I. Charles T. Newton on Votive Dresses 400

II. The Moritzburg Feather Hangings 401

III. The Story of Arachne, translated by Earl Cowper 402

IV. Charlemagne's Dalmatic, by Lord Lindsay 405

V. Notices of various Mediaeval Embroideries by the Hon.
and Rev. W. Ignatius Clifford 407

VI. Syon Cope, Rock's Introduction, "Textile Fabrics" 408

VII. Assyrian Fringes 412

VIII. Hrothgar's House Furniture: Poem of Beowulf 412

IX. Thorgunna, by Sir G. Dasent 413

X. Pedigree of Aelswith 414

XI. Statutes at Large 414

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

CUTS.

Fig.|Page.|
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1 | 20 | Egyptian corselet. Wilkinson's "Ancient Egyptians," p.
| | 332.
2 | 25 | Tabernacle of Balawat. Temp. Shalmaneser. British
| | Museum.
3 | 30 | Zoomorphic Celtic pattern.
4 | 32 | Pallas Athene attired in the sacred peplos. Panathenaic
| | vase, British Museum.
5 | 62 | Wave pattern.
6 | 63 | Key pattern.
7 | 63 | Metopes and triglyphs.
8 | 73 | Persian carpet. Egyptian symbolic patterns.
9 | 91 | Gothic sunflower. R. S. A. N.
10 | 98 | Wave.
11 | 104 | Egyptian ally an