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ENGLISH MEDIEVAL EMBROIDERY. 301 pression of mouldings, crockets, finials, canopies, and pedestals, are all so admirably displayed that the needle which produced such masterly outlines is not for an instant supposed capable of having finished the picture. In this antependium of red velvet, all the architectural portion is of gold tambour. It pom-trays saints standing on l3rackets under foliated arches with open interlacing shafts, which rest on lions' heads, and out of the shafts, as from a tree, spring boughs and acorns of sold. Contrast this design with those on the thin cafFctans of Adrianople, with the striped brocades of Brousa, or the gaudy scarfs of Albania, (for it would be lowering the subject to speak of the degenerate taste which employs itself in wool- working, crochet, and braiding,) and it rises as far above all modern inventions as the materials are in themselves more precious, as well as more suitable to be employed by the liands of an English gentlewoman. CHARLES HENRY HARTSHORNE. COPE CHEST. YORK CATHEDRAL. R r