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Updated: June 23, 2025
He sent one of his editors to the West to get first-hand motifs from Indian costumes and adapt them as decorative themes for dress embroideries. Three designers searched the Metropolitan Museum for new and artistic ideas, and he induced his company to install a battery of four-color presses in order that the designs might be given in all the beauty of their original colors.
The ladies of the Pension Magnotte were for the most part of mature age and unattractive appearance two or three lonely spinsters, eking out their pitiful little incomes as best they might, by the surreptitious sale of delicate embroideries, confectioned in their dismal leisure; and a fat elderly widow, popularly supposed to be enormously rich, but of miserly propensities.
Romulus had a crown and a sceptre with an eagle on the top and a white cloak reaching to the feet striped with purple embroideries from the shoulders to the feet: the name of the cloak was toga, i. e. Laur. Lydus, De Magis. Reip. "Shedding ashes from the hearth over the earth, they skillfully traced the prophesies with this wand, as they gazed at the sun and foretold the future.
On the day of rejoicing for "La Gloriosa" there was no such display, although all Madrid was en fête. It was the triumph of the people, and their heirlooms do not take the form of priceless embroideries. On Holy Thursday the Royal Family and all the Court visit seven churches on foot at least, that is the correct number, though sometimes not strictly adhered to.
Sparkling gems from the pilfered store of Carmelo Neri-trinkets which I had especially designed for her lace, rich embroideries, bouquets of hot-house blossoms, gilded boxes of costly sweets nothing came amiss to her she accepted all with a certain covetous glee which she was at no pains to hide from me nay, she made it rather evident that she expected such things as her right.
It is just the reverse with the rooms in a certain palace I sometimes have the privilege of entering, where every detail is worked furniture, tapestries, embroideries, majolica, and flowers into an overwhelming Wagner symphony of loveliness. There is a genuine Leonardo in one of those rooms, and truly I almost wish it were in a whitewashed lobby.
In this and other emporiums of the same class were to be found rare embroideries, ivory carvings, eggshell china, Oriental draperies, jade, and piles of Chinese and Japanese silks of the most exquisite fabric and colour.
The mysteries were schools of immortality. They plentifully taught many a lesson that Christianity afterward instilled. But their drapery was perhaps over ornate. Truth does not need any. Truth always should be charming. Yet always it should be naked as well. About it the mysteries hung a raiment that was beautiful, but of which the rich embroideries obscured.
Spain used to be a great place for furniture and stuffs; I've got a lot of them still bought a whole chest of embroideries once in Seville, or rather, at that hospital where the big Murillo hangs. You must know that picture Moses striking water from the rock best thing Murillo ever did."
But to the eye, at least, there is no reminder of the scene of the Nativity in this close and stifling chapel, hung with costly silks and embroideries, glittering with rich lamps, filled with the smoke of incense and waxen tapers.
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