le, 159;
first allusion to use of silk in Christian Church, 160;
palls of silk brought from Rome, A.D. 685, 160;
Bede's remains wrapped in silk, 160;
specimens of silk in Auberville's "Tissus," silk tissues called
"Imperial," 161.

Silk-weavers, Jewish, at Thebes in 1161, 161;
transported by Roger, King of Sicily, from Greece to Palermo, 161,
165;
description of Royal manufactory at Palermo, by Hugh Falcandus,
twelfth century, 161;
three periods in Sicily, 162-3;
Saracenic, in India, 166-7;
Italian, in Lyons, 1450, 167, 169;
Spanish at Malaga and Almeria, 168;
in Hungary under Queen Gisela, 169;
in the Flemish towns, 170;
Asiatic, 170.

Smock of Mary Tudor, 385.

Society of Arts, Birmingham, 292.

Sofas, 285.

Spangles, 146.

Spanish Armada, hangings, 253.

Sphinx, 265.

Spinning, 357.

Stamford, Arras woven at, 256, 257.

Stitches, 194-259;
lists of, 196;
gold, 203;
mosaic, 204;
cushion, 204;
plumage, 207;
satin, 214;
sampler, 234;
ecclesiastical, 345;
stem, 214.

Stole, 308;
at Durham, 364;
of Aelfled, Queen of Edward II., 364.

Style, 14-53.

Sun-cross, Egyptian, 337.

Sunflower, 91;
radiated pattern of, 111.

Surcoat of Black Prince, 373.

Swastika, 103.

Symbolism, 59, 95, 98, 307, 333, 334-5, 352.

Symmetry, 63-4.

Table covers, 287.

Tanaquil, robes worked by, 129.

Tapestry, 235-259;
in British Museum, 236;
woven, 237;
of Charles, Duke of Burgundy, 243;
Gobelins, 237;
Arras, 238;
Saracenic, 240;
at Brussels, 245;
French, 245;
Italian, 245;
English, 248, 277;
revival of, at Windsor, 257;
in Cluny Museum, 277.

Taste, 52;
Oriental, 388.

Tau, 335.

Tent, funeral, of an Egyptian queen, 25, 215;
of Antar, 263;
of Nadir Shah, 263;
of Alexander, 264;
of Ptolemy Philadelphus, 264-5;
Persian, 265.

Textile art, 45, 59, 74, 77, 93, 104, 107, 174, 176, 187, 205, 307, 310.

Thebes, silk-weavers of, 161.

"Tissus" of Auberville, 160.

Titian, 178.

Toga, 338.

Tomb of Agamemnon, 19;
of Rameses, 20;
of warrior at Kuban, 129;
in Crimea, 130, 217;
Anglo-Saxon, 144;
of St. Cuthbert at Durham, 163.

Trabea, 309, 337.

Tree of Life, 336.

Triptych in Cluny Museum, 211;