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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), E. (search)
They are grasped by pincers and pulled through. Em-broid′er-y. Ornamentation by raised figures of needle-work. This is a very ancient art. The Egyptians, Babylonians, Medes, and Persians all excelled in it. The adornments of the tabernacle in the wilderness were of tapestry worked in blue, scarlet, and gold. The garment of Sisera, as referred to by Deborah, was embroidery, needle-work on both sides. See damask. Homer refers to embroidery as the occupation of Helen and Andromache. The tents of wealthy Arabs have an inner covering of white embroidered stuff beneath the dark, outer, water-proof covering of goat's-hair. The Tartar women excel in embroidery, and exhibit in this a skill, taste, and variety that is really admirable. It is very doubtful whether it would be possible to find, even in France, embroideries as beautiful and perfect as those sometimes executed by Tartar women. — Abbe Huc's Travels in Tartary. The tent of a late Persian shah was a load
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
he game of thimblerig occurs in a painting, and the illustration is from the work of Professor Rosellini. Egyptian toys (Museum of Leyden). Toys have been disinterred by General di Cesnola from the tombs of Golgoi and Idalium in Cyprus, — painted dolls of clay modeled with the fingers; mounted cavaliers armed with shields, or horses attached four abreast to cars. One, a horse a foot in length, rolling on movable wheels, was found in a diminutive grave, older probably than Hector and Andromache. The toys of the Roman children were of various kinds; some found at Pesaro were little leaden gods and goddesses, with altars and sacrificial instruments (Lararium puerile). They had also puppets, geometrical figures of ivory to be fitted together, dolls, terra-cotta figures with arms and legs moved by a string, like the modern patins and marionettes; popguns, blow-guns, bows and arrows, tops. Hooker, the naturalist, states that he was amused at the Monastery of Doobdi, in Sikkim, w