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

Chapter 831: Transcriber's Notes

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About This Book

The catalogue surveys a museum collection of woven textiles, vestments, needlework and tapestries, describing raw materials (wool, cotton, hemp, flax, silk, gold and silver), silk types and regional weaving styles, embroidery techniques and accessories, tapestry traditions and carpets, and the iconography, liturgical, heraldic, botanical and zoological motifs found on pieces; it also treats manufacturing processes, places of production, and practical uses of the collection for historians, artists and manufacturers, explaining technical terms and offering structural classifications to guide study and design.

Transcriber's Notes

A number of typographical errors were corrected silently.

Cover image was created by the transcriber and is donated to the public domain.

Two small illustrations were recreated by the transcriber and are donated to the public domain.

First index entry for emblematic beasts corrected to page 140 from page 198.

There are two items numbered 1376. The first is probably correct as it references a matching image.

The poems listed under item 4456 use an unusual font which is reproduced using small capitol letters. A sample of the image of the original is shown directly below.