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Textile Fabrics: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Church-vestments, Dresses, Silk Stuffs, Needlework and Tapestries, forming that Section of the Museum — John Shaqi

Textile Fabrics: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Church-vestments, Dresses, Silk Stuffs, Needlework and Tapestries, forming that Section of the MuseumRock, Daniel

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Textile Fabrics: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Church-vestments, Dresses, Silk Stuffs, Needlework and Tapestries, forming that Section of the Museum

Name: Textile Fabrics: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Church-vestments, Dresses, Silk Stuffs, Needlework and Tapestries, forming that Section of the Museum
Author: Rock, Daniel

Rock, Daniel

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TEXTILE FABRICS.

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[Illustration: 84.

HOOD OF A COPE

Embroidered by hand in silks & gold, with the Adoration of the Magi, &
bordered with green & yellow silk fringe.__Flemish 16th. century.]




_SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM._

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_TEXTILE FABRICS_;

A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE

_Of the Collection of Church-vestments, Dresses, Silk Stuffs,
Needlework and Tapestries, forming that
Section of the Museum_.

BY THE VERY REV. DANIEL ROCK, D.D.

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_Published for the Science and Art Department of the
Committee of Council on Education._

LONDON:

CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.

1870.




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CONTENTS OF THE INTRODUCTION.


  SECTION I.--TEXTILES.


  _The Geography of the Raw Materials._

    Wool, x.
    Cotton, xiii.
    Hemp, xiii.
    Flax, xiii.
    Silk, xvi.
    Gold, xxv.
    Cloth of Gold, xxv.
    Tissue, xxxi.
    Silver, xxxiii.
    Wire-drawing, xxxiii.
    Gold thread, xxxiv.

  _Silks had various Names_:

    Holosericum, xxxvii.
    Subsericum, xxxvii.
    Examitum, xxxvii.
    Xamitum, xxxvii.
    Samit, xxxvii.
    Ciclatoun, xxxix.
    Cendal, xl.
    Taffeta, xli.
    Sarcenet, xlii.
    Satin, xlii.
    Cadas, xliii.
    Camoca, xliv.
    Cloth of Tars, xliv.
    Velvet, xlv.
    Diaper, xlvi.
    Chrysoclavus, xlix.
    Stauracin, l.
    Polystauron, l.
    Gammadion, l.
    De quadrapolo, li.
    De octapolo, li.
    De fundato, liii.
    Stragulatae, liv.
    Imperial, lv.
    Baudekin, lvi.
    Cloth of Pall, lviii.
    Lettered silks, lix.
    The Eagle, lxi.

  _Styles of Silks._

    Chinese, lxiii.
    Persian, lxiii.
    Byzantine, lxiv.
    Oriental, lxv.
    Syrian, lxv.
    Saracenic, lxvi.
    Moresco-Spanish, lxvi.

  _Places weaving Textiles._

    Sicily, lxvii.
    Lucca, lxxi.
    Genoa, lxxii.
    Venice, lxxiii.
    Florence, lxxv.
    Milan, lxxvi.
    Great Britain, lxxvi.
    Ireland, lxxix.
    Flanders, lxxix.
    France, lxxx.
    Cologne, lxxxi.
    Acca or Acre, lxxxiii.
    Buckram, lxxxv.
    Burdalisaunder, lxxxv.
    Fustian, lxxxvi.
    Muslin, lxxxvii.
    Cloth of Areste, lxxxvii.

  _Silks distinguished through their Colours and shades of Colour._

    Cloth of Tars, lxxxix.
    Indicus, or sky-blue, xc.
    Murrey, xc.
    Changeable, or shot, xci.
    Marble, xci.

  SECTION II.--EMBROIDERY.

    Of the Egyptians, xcii.
    Of the Israelites, xcii.
    Of the Greeks and Latins, or Phrygionic, xciii.
    Opus plumarium, or feather-stitch, xcv.
    Opus pulvinarium, or cushion-style, xcvi.
    Opus pectineum, or comb-drawn, xcvi.
    Opus Anglicum, or English work, xcviii.
    Opus consutum, or cut work, cii.
    Accessories of gold and silver, civ;
      glass, cv;
      enamel, cv.
    Diapering, cviii.
    Thread embroidery, cix.
    Quilting, cx.

  SECTION III.--TAPESTRY.

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