CHAPTER XI 104

INDEX 113

LIST OF WOODCUTS.

Page Indian woman reeling silk 13

Ladies in fifteenth century spinning and weaving 34

Mortuary cloth 44

Silk damask with imitated Arabic letters 46

Ladies in fourteenth century carding and spinning 48

Byzantine Dalmatic 51

Sicilian silk damask 57

Florentine silk damask 62

Part of the Syon Cope 84

Embroidered saddle-cloth 87

Ancient banner of the city of Strasburg 91

Embroidered hangings of a bed 94

Banner of the tapestry workers of Lyons 97

Tapestry of the fourteenth century 98

The weaver, in 1574 100

Tapestry of the fifteenth century 102

State gloves of Louis the thirteenth 112

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