Embroidery
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An encyclopedia entry on embroidery from Rees's Cyclopedia. It defines embroidery as enriching cloth, stuff, or muslin with needlework figures in gold or silver thread, and discusses the word's etymology, its attribution to the Phrygians, and its use in church vestments, standards, and similar items. It also lists kinds of embroidery (both-sided, guimped, raised on the stamp, low and plain) and cites a British statute (22 Geo. II) banning imports of foreign embroidery and gold or silver brocade.
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- Article
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- 1819
- Language
- English
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