gical colours were permitted in
the use of the Church of England. Before the Reformation
the Norman and English liturgical colours were
different. (Rock, "Church of our Fathers," ii. p. 268.)
Perhaps nothing was originally worked departing from
this rule, but votive offerings are inventoried as being
of all colours, having been accepted and used as
decoration and for vestments.

[482] I have already spoken of the custom of clothing
the images of the gods as a classical tradition. The
Greeks draped their statues in precious garments, often
the spoils of subjugated nations, offerings from the
conquerors, or obsequious tribute from the conquered.
Newton (Appendix 1) tells us of inscriptions containing
inventories of old clothes offered in the Greek Temples.
Ezekiel (xvi.) speaks of silk and linen embroideries
given for covering the idols. The images of the saints
in Roman Catholic churches are, we know, constantly
draped in splendid embroideries, and hung with jewels.

[483] There is here an overlap of several centuries.

[484] Charlemagne's dalmatic, described hereafter, of
which the pedigree is well ascertained, justifies
Woltmann and Woermann's theory; as this eighth-century
embroidery shows, by its design, that Greek art was
still a living power.

[485] Of which we have yet examples on the Continent,
here and there; for instance, in the Cathedral at Coire
in the Grisons, and in the Romanesque church at Clermont
in Auvergne (not the cathedral). I do not include in
this statement of the rare occurrence of the ogee, the
European countries which were subject to Moorish rule,
i.e. Spain and Portugal.

[486] This, slightly modified, continued to prevail till
the time of Louis XIV., when France took the lead, and
gave a style to the world which entirely broke away from
all mediaeval tradition.

[487] Rock's "Church of our Fathers," i. p. 409. Compare
Wilkinson's "Ancient Egyptians," i. p. 332 (see fig. 1);
and Bock's "Liturgische Gewaender," taf. i., i. p. 130,
fig. 6. Bock does not give his authority for the pattern
on the ephod.

[488] Bock's "Liturgische Gewaender," i. taf. i., iii.,
vi.

[489] Yates' "Textrinum Antiquorum," pp. 203, 376, Sec.
103. He quotes from Claudian the description of a
trabea, said to have been woven by the