Needlework As Art
Needlework As Art
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Hence, the materials used are not only woven hair, but the furryskins themselves. In the south, under the sunshine, dress is for thegreater part of the year only needed for decency and beauty. Theflowing and delicate cottons and silks and fine woollens, are shapedto cover and adorn the beautiful forms, which for entire isolationtake refuge in the never-failing mantle. The mantle was the greatopportunity for the embroiderer's craft. Alkisthenes, the Sybarite, had a garment of such magnificence t...hat when it was exhibited in theTemple of Juno at Lacinium, where all Italy was congregated, itattracted such universal admiration that it was sold to theCarthaginians by Dionysius the Elder for 120 talents. The ground waspurple, wrought all over with animals, except the centre, where wereseen Jupiter, Juno, Apollo, Minerva, Venus, and Themis. On one borderwas the figure of Alkisthenes himself, on the other was depicted theemblematic figure of his native city, Sybaris. The size of thegarment was Homeric--it was fifteen cubits, or twenty-two feet inbreadth.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Hence, the materials used are not only woven hair, but the furryskins themselves. In the south, under the sunshine, dress is for thegreater part of the year only needed for decency and beauty. Theflowing and delicate cottons and silks and fine woollens, are shapedto cover and adorn the beautiful forms, which for entire isolationtake refuge in the never-failing mantle. The mantle was the greatopportunity for the embroiderer's craft. Alkisthenes, the Sybarite, had a garment of such magnificence t...hat when it was exhibited in theTemple of Juno at Lacinium, where all Italy was congregated, itattracted such universal admiration that it was sold to theCarthaginians by Dionysius the Elder for 120 talents. The ground waspurple, wrought all over with animals, except the centre, where wereseen Jupiter, Juno, Apollo, Minerva, Venus, and Themis. On one borderwas the figure of Alkisthenes himself, on the other was depicted theemblematic figure of his native city, Sybaris. The size of thegarment was Homeric--it was fifteen cubits, or twenty-two feet inbreadth.
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