tion. German. 16th century.
(V. & A. M.)

78. CHAIN-STITCH, showing in the figures of the little men what a
draughtsman can express in a few stitches. Full size. Chinese. (Mrs. L.
F. D.)

79. FIGURE WORK--The flesh in straight upright stitches, the drapery
laid and couched. English. 15th century. (V. & A. M.)

80. CONSUMMATE FIGURE EMBROIDERY--Canvas ground entirely covered. Flesh
in coloured silks, short-stitch; drapery coloured silks over gold, which
only gleams through in the lighter parts. Architecture closely couched
gold. Part of an orphrey. Florentine. 16th century. (V. & A. M.)

81. CHINESE FIGURES--The flesh in short satin-stitches, the rest in
chain-stitch; chiefly in blue and white upon a figured white silk
ground. About actual size. (Mrs. L. F. D.)

82. SATIN-STITCH, showing the influence of its direction upon the tone
of colour. The pattern is all in one shade of yellow-brown floss upon
white linen. The outline steps with the weaving, and so shows connection
between satin and canvas stitches. Italian, 17th century. (V. & A. M.)

83. MEANINGLESS DIRECTION OF STITCH--Satin and herring-bone stitches.
From an altar-cloth. German. 17th century. (V. & A. M.)

84. MORE EXPRESSIVE LINES OF STITCHING--To compare with Illustration 83.

85. SATIN AND PLUMAGE STITCHES chiefly, the bird's crest in French
knots, the clouds about him in knotted braid. The direction of the
stitch is most artfully chosen, and the precision of the work is
faultless. The satin ground is of brilliant orange-red; the crane,
white, with black tail feathers, scarlet crest, and yellow beak and
legs; the clouds, black and white and blue. Japanese. (Mrs. L. F. D.)

86. RENAISSANCE CHURCH WORK IN GOLD AND SILVER, partly flat, partly in
relief, upon pale blue satin, with touches of pink and crimson silk to
give emphasis. Spanish. 18th century. Compare the stem with Illustration
66, B. (V. & A. M.)

87. GOTHIC CHURCH WORK--The flesh, &c., in split-stitch; the vine-leaves
green, getting yellower as it nears the crimson silk ground. Part of a
cope embroidered with a representation of the Tree of Jesse. English.
Ca. 1340. (V. & A. M.)

88. MODERN CHURCH WORK ON LINEN, in long-and-short stitch. Veins padded
with embroidery cotton and worked over with two threads of filo-floss, a
green and a blue; the rest of the leaves worked in one shade of stout
floss. All this applied to velvet with a couching of brown filoselle,
and the tendrils added. Des