CONTENTS

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CHAPTER I[1]
CHAPTER II[7]
CHAPTER III[14]
CHAPTER IV[24]
CHAPTER V[35]
CHAPTER VI[49]
CHAPTER VII[70]
CHAPTER VIII[78]
CHAPTER IX[88]
CHAPTER X[95]
CHAPTER XI[104]
INDEX[113]

LIST OF WOODCUTS.

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Indian woman reeling silk[13]
Ladies in fifteenth century spinning and weaving[34]
Mortuary cloth[44]
Silk damask with imitated Arabic letters[46]
Ladies in fourteenth century carding and spinning[48]
Byzantine Dalmatic[51]
Sicilian silk damask[57]
Florentine silk damask[62]
Part of the Syon Cope[84]
Embroidered saddle-cloth[87]
Ancient banner of the city of Strasburg[91]
Embroidered hangings of a bed[94]
Banner of the tapestry workers of Lyons[97]
Tapestry of the fourteenth century[98]
The weaver, in 1574[100]
Tapestry of the fifteenth century[102]
State gloves of Louis the thirteenth[112]