Tooled and burnished gold is also used largely for the decoration of the dresses of the figures, their crowns, jewelled ornaments and the apparels and orphreys of their vestments.
The orphreys were divided into panels representing scenes from the life of the Virgin, and the coronation of the Virgin was figured in colored silks upon the hood.
The orphreys were woven in a diaper of red and gold silk, and were starred with medallions of many saints and martyrs, among whom was St. Sebastian.
There is a good deal of colour on the tomb; the chasuble is red with green lining, its orphreys are painted on the stone.
The apparel is also painted on the alb, the orphreys and ornaments on the mitre, and a lozenge-shaped pattern on the cushion.
The Vestment is of the early 16th century, the Orphreys of the late 14th century.
From this time onward, however, the embroidery became ever more and more elaborate, and with this tendency the orphreys were broadened to allow of their being decorated with figures.
About their necks were brilliant collars with orphreys crusted, as were the robes, with carbuncles.
Outshone by the shimmer of the orphreys and the stones, the costumes of the other judges appeared darker and discordant.
She worked one altar-cloth on shot blood-red and green silk,[577] with golden orphreys at the side and across the top.
The orphreys were divided into panels representing scenes from the life of the Virgin, and the coronation of the Virgin was figured in coloured silks upon the hood.
Less essential are the orphreys on the hem of the arms and the fringes along the slits at the sides and the lower hem.
And when all was prepared and the staining should have followed, my head man sent for me to come to the shop, and there hung the figure with its dark green robe with orphreysof deep blue and silver.
But the orphreys of his cope were to be embroidered in gold upon this green, and therefore the pattern had first to be added out in white upon a blue-flashed glass, which yellow stain over all would afterwards turn into green and gold.
The orphreys were woven in a diaper of red and gold silk, and were starred with medallions of many saints and martyrs, among whom was St Sebastian.
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