254-55.
Two Crimson Velvet Maniples, with crosses and fringes of green. Spanish, 16th century. 1 foot 6-1/2 inches by 3 inches, and 5 inches.
These were to match the like kind of stole.
524.
A Crimson Velvet Maniple, with crosses of gold and fringes of crimson silk. Spanish, 16th century. 1 foot 5-1/2 inches by 3-1/4 inches, and 6-1/2 inches.
733.
A Piece of Raised Velvet; ground, yellow silk; design, in velvet pile, pomegranates, and conventional floriations, enclosing an oval with a quatrefoil in the middle. Spanish, late 16th century. 1 foot 6 inches by 7 inches, and by 1 foot 2 inches.
This raised velvet must have been for household decoration, and
may have been wrought at Almeria.
902.
Cut-Work for furniture purposes; ground, yellow silk; design, vases of flowers formed in green velvet; the flowers in places embroidered in white and light blue floss-silk. French, 17th century. 9 feet 9 inches by 1 foot 9 inches.
This specimen well shows the way in which such strips for pilasters
were wrought. At first the green velvet seems the ground, which,
however, is of amber yellow silk, but the velvet is so cut out and sewed
