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CUT WORK. U wnen, Though outwork is mentioned in Hardyng’s Chronicle,- C escriljm g the luxury in King Richard II.’s reign, he says— “ Cut werke was greate both in court anti townes, Both in menes hoddis and also in their gownes,” yet this oft quoted passage, no more than that of Chaucer, in 101 10 accuses the priests of wearing gowns of scarlet and green colours ornamented with outwork, cannot be received as t'Vi ence of this mode of decoration being in general use. 11 re era rather to the fashion of cutting out 3 pieces of velvet oi „ J r matenals > and sewing them down to the garment with a braid, the applied or “applique” work of later times. hat linen was then adorned with the needle, we have evidence cathedrT^ P C ° nSOTt ’ QU6en A ™ e ° f Bohemia - In the hand a om ’ la8Ue 18 P reserve< I a priest’s robe, executed by liei Which the weft lud woS 1 lLeLif)7lho 1 t' WaS draWn ’ Work ’ hl taming the design and forming the threads into! ^ ** rendered firm by a stitch at Lh then embroidered, often in colours. 4 g as The linen shirt or smock was the special object of adornment crieS:- 6 ^ ° f “ Lord Tkoi *<’ 5 the fair Annette ‘ My maids, gae to my dressing-room, And dress me in my smock; ’ The one half is o’ the Holland fine, The other o’ needlework.’’ . Wy"T n «k"L 1 * 8 "* ‘° ' lMCribe Mibioidery oi “ White was her smocke, embrouded all before And eko behynde, on her eolar aboute, Of cole blacke sylke, within and eke without.” 2 a qi , ‘ — 1470, '° W0 6 ° f John Hardyng,” ciro. the Philippine Islands. It was revived in 3 Temp. Rich II T ,, Europe during the last century, and speei- “ s o much pouncim? f ** 1611 ® armen ts mens were executed closely resembling boles, so much draw ° C to make lace, under the various appellations oi sheers,” & 0 ._q q 1S'” g ^zigzagging) of drawn-work (Fig. 28), Indian work (see 4 Prawn-work • ar f on ’^ aucer - “ Denmark ”), Dresden point (see “ Ger- PM'iod in U U3s j a 00 _ lnu ed to a late many ”), Hamburg point, &c. »r the produotions^f 1 ^ 1111 , 10 b ° fo ' md “ Percy ’ “ Ecli qucs of Ancient Po- of Brazil, Chili, and ctry,” vol. iii.