No less than twenty varieties of these polygonal ornaments, many of them introducing the gammadion, are to be found in the lacework of the Assisi alb.
After consulting illuminated manuscripts of the eighth and ninth centuries, I have come to the conclusion that there is in them strong evidence of lacework having been employed to ornament the albs worn even at those periods.
Rock, which, though written nearly forty years ago, is so apposite while considering this beautiful lacework from Assisi and its Eastern derivation.
One in the Louvre, of the birth of St. John the Baptist, has most unmistakable laceworkon the linen of the bed, and on the long towel gracefully depicted as hanging from the shoulder of one of the attendants.
How poor little Christina's soul clung to every cusp of the lacework spire, every arch of the window, each of which she had hailed as an achievement!
During the next day and night they spent sixteen hours on their snow-shoes and the lacework of frost in DeBar's trail grew thinner.
The next day they traveled fourteen and the next twelve, and there was no lacework of frost at all.
On all sides, under the swaying lacework of green leaves, there appeared brightly painted cabins, which set a note of bold colour in the sea of verdure.
If her complexion had not been netted all over with a lacework of infinitesimal wrinkles, she would have looked like a little girl dressed up for an old lady.
These powerful buttresses are wonderfully effective in their contrast to the lacework of the sculpture.
Formerly I did not understand the architecture; I merely saw the lacework of the Gothic.
Looped and traced with threads of gauze, the lacework of a fairyʼs thought, scarcely daring to breathe upon its veil of tremulous chastity, it kept the wings of light on the hover, afraid to weigh down the whiteness.
He was riding amongst ferns--ferns like those he saw at home, and ferns that spread green lacework fronds right overhead.
She had said No at the time, without allowing herself to be tempted by Oriental remuneration, a splendid hospitality, the finest court in the Bardo for a studio, with its surrounding facades of stone in lacework carving.
It is a complete monotonous lacework of stone, not nearly as spirited as similar, earlier, French work.
The splendor of the solid lacework ten to twelve feet high is thrown out by contrast with the naked walls which it crowns.
I could see nothing but the ghostly line of trunks, lit up here by the moon, there standing out black against the night, or fading away into a lacework of leaves and branches.
But the stir of the leaves that flutter lightly overhead, their green lacework all dark against the summer sky, is a restful, soothing sound.
Arroyo’s design is composed of wide vertical bands, with Oriental lacework in the centre, engraved on a white ground, and on both edges, gilded foliations mingled with extremely beautiful decorations of the Renaissance period.
An acorn dropped on the roof, and in spite of Molly's warning, he started and glanced toward the window, where a frosted pattern of ivy showed like a delicate lacework on the small greenish panes.
It is interesting to note that the name intertextus refers to the numerous radial interlacing spines covering this Visnagita in two or three whorls, and on the older plants forming a dense lacework over the entire plant.
This laceworkof spines is rather similar to the network of thorns covering the Hedgehog Cactus.
The ridges run lengthwise over the whole plant body, and are covered with a dense lacework of thorns which are often cross-ridged and of several kinds, forming in clusters, a network over the entire plant.
The embroidery of letters upon lacework is costly; and we saw single letters which had required a week's work.
They had to push them aside, and open a path for themselves through the tender shoots which threw a wavy lacework of foliage before their eyes.
Less ambitious are the designs for different sorts of laceworkby Miss Hammett and Miss Naylor.
Something has been done in lacework in connection with the fan, and on this point I should mention in terms of praise M.
This story is surrounded by a white marble cloister, and on the outer side of each arch is an oval-shaped recess, filled with delicate lacework carving of varied patterns in marble.
Small articles, like collars, capes and pelerines, were almost entirely covered with the most exquisite tracery of leaf and flower, a perfect frostwork of delicate stitchery, with patches of lacework introduced in spaces of the design.
Lacework The disappearance of the practice of French embroidery was as sudden as the dropping of a theater curtain, but a coexistent art called Spanish lacework lingered long after muslin embroidery had ceased to be.
I could see through the lacework of the blind; the drawing-room was empty.
