s--Romans--Scotch--Scales of colour--MM. Charton and
Chevreul on tones of colour--Gas colours 175

CHAPTER VI.--STITCHES.

Stitches--Part I.: The needle--Gammer Gurton's needle--Art
of needlework--Lists of stitches--Part II.: Plain work--
The seam--Mrs. Floyer--White embroidery--Nuns' work--
Greek--German--Spanish--Italian white work--Semper's
rules for white work--Part III.: Opus Phrygium--Gold
embroideries--Part IV.: Opus pulvinarium--Cushion stitches--
Mosaic stitches--Traditional decorations from Chaldea and
Assyria--German and Italian pattern-books--Part V.: Opus
plumarium--The Plumarii--Feather-work of India--Islands of
the Pacific--African work--Mexican and Peruvian--Cluny
triptych--Mitre of St. Charles Borromeo--Essay by
Denis--Chinese and Japanese feather-stitches--Part VI.:
Opus consutum or cut work--Patchwork--Egyptian and Greek
examples--Irish cut work--Chaucer--Francis I.'s hangings
at Cluny--Lord Beauchamp's curtains--Spanish examples--
Remarks--Art of application--Part VII.: Lace--Opus
filatorium--Mrs. Palliser--M. Blanc--Guipure--Sir Gardiner
Wilkinson--Netted lace--Homer--Solomon's Temple--Bobbin
laces--Yak--Coloured laces--Venetian sumptuary laws--Golden
laces--Point d'Alencon--Mr. A. Cole's lectures--M. Urbani
de Gheltof on Venice laces--Lace stitches--Revival of lace
school at Burano--English laces--Part VIII.: Tapestry--Opus
pectineum--Modes of weaving tapestry--Its great antiquity--
Egyptian looms--Albert Castel on tapestries--Homeric
picture-weaving--Arachne--A paraphrase by Lord Houghton--
Nomenticum--Sidonius Apollinaris--Saracenic weaving--Arras--
Brussels--Italian tapestries from Florence, Milan, and
Mantua--French tapestries--Cluny Museum collection--Gobelins--
Beauvais--English tapestry--Comnenus--Matthew Paris--Early
trade with Arras--Coventry tapestries--Chaucer--Tapestry
"of verd"--Hatfield tapestries--Armada tapestries--Sir F.
Crane--Mortlake manufactory--Francis Cleyne--Raphael
cartoons--Percy tapestry from Lambeth 194

CHAPTER VII.--HANGINGS.

Classical hangings--Babylonian and Persian--Semper's
theory--Sanctuary in the wilderness--St. Peter's at
Rome--Abulfeda--Akbar's tent--Nadir Shah's tent--Tent
of Khan of Persia--Tents of Alexander the Great at
Alexandria--Roman hangings--Funeral pyres--Kosroes'
tent--Semper's rules for hanging decorations