[149] There are specimens of bead-work pictures at St. Stephen’s at Coire, in the Marien-Kirche at Dantzic, and elsewhere. See Rock, p. cv. This is, in fact, mosaic in textiles, without cement.
[150] Witness the stone whorls for the spindles in our prehistoric barrows, and the “heaps” of the lake cities.
[151] Yates, “Textrinum Antiquorum,” p. 129.
[152] An Egyptian Dynasty called themselves the Shepherd Kings.
[153] Yates gives endless quotations to show how ancient and how honourable an occupation was that of tending sheep.
[154] Semper, i. p. 139. The cover of the bed on which was laid the golden coffin in the tomb of Cyrus was of Babylonian tapestry of wool; the carpet beneath it was woven of the finest wrought purple. Plautus mentions Babylonian hangings and embroidered tapestries. See Birdwood’s “Indian Arts,” i. p. 286.
[155] Joshua vii.
[156] Ezekiel xxvii. 22.
[157] Semper, “Der Stil,” i. p. 138.
[158] Yates, pp. 79, 91, 93, 99, 102, 445. Lanæ Albæ.