Nuns' lace, 73.
Nuremberg, old tapestry wrought at, 298.
Nursery rhymes, old English, 103.
O, the, or zero form of ornamentation, 225, 227, 228.
Oakden, Ralf, Esq., gift of old English embroidered apparels, 147.
Odilia, a French lady-embroideress, 30.
Opus Anglicum, 275, 281, 288.
Araneum, 162, 210.
Plumarium, 288, 289.
Oriental damasked silk, 25, 128, 132, 136, 140, 154, 155, 160, 251.
brocaded in gold, 25, 133, 137, 138, 151, 156.
modern damasked silk, 21.
brocaded in gold and silver, 21.
very fine linen, or byssus, 239.
Orphreys, embroidered, 1, 6, 21, 29, 55, 68, 76, 82, 117, 120, 143, 145, 168, 189, 244, 245, 247, 252, 253, 254, 259, 265.
of web, or woven stuff for the purpose, 28, 33, 61, 62, 68, 80, 83, 89, 112, 116, 118, 119, 136, 143, 161, 174, 175, 191, 201, 207, 208, 252, 253, 265, 291.
Orphrey web, Venetian, 71, 112, 271, 272.
Orvieto, altar-frontal from, 101.
Osmont's "Volucraire," or Book on Birds, 286.
Ostrich-feathers figured, 19, 129.
Palermo, stuffs woven at, 38, 44, 45, 53, 130, 131, 139, 150, 163, 165, 170, 228, 232.
its "Tiraz," or silk-house, 232.
Pallæ or palls, what, 194, 196.
or liturgical palls, 196.
Palls for casting over tombs in churches, 56.
Palm-branch carried by St. John Evangelist at the burial of the B. V. Mary, 278.
held by the Jew as figured on the Syon cope, 280.
Pandolfini, armorials of the family of, 143.
Paper, gilt and stamped out like flowers pasted on silken stuffs, 43.
Papyonns, or cheetahs, 154, 178.
Parchment, gilt, 140, 224, 229, 244.
gilt and woven into silken stuffs, 132, 140, 224, 229, 244;
the trade trick learned from the Moors by the southern Spaniards, 244.
Parrots; see Zoology—Birds.
"Paston Letters" noticed, 289.
Pastoral amusements, 295, &c.
literature, 294.
Paul's, S. cathedral, London, vestments once belonging to, 151.
Peacock, oaths sworn by the, 287.
symbolism of the, 286, &c.
Pedalia or Pede-cloths, 209, 210, 263.
Persian carpeting, 83.
damask, silk brocaded in gold, 133.
damask, silk and worsted, 84.
embroidery, 270.
satin, 270.
tunic, 270.
Peter's, St., fish, 151.
Pin, an old one (?), 254.
Pitra, Dom, now Cardinal, quoted, 286.
Pity, the so-called, of St. Gregory, what, 34, 194.
Plumarium Opus, what, 288, 289.
Pomegranate; see Botany—Fruits.
ensign of Queen Catherine of Arragon, 134.
ensign of Spain, especially of Granada, 7.
symbolic meaning of, 13.
Polystauria or stuffs figured all over with the sign of the cross, 161.
Porphyreticum, what, 155.
Pouch, 3.
Prato, church of, 261.
Presanctified, mass of, 113.
Printing by block, on silk, 31, &c.;
see Block printing.
Psalms, Book of, quoted, 281.
Purses, 3, 89, 106.
liturgical, 188, 263.
Pyx cloth, 202, 260.
Quilting, 14, 16.
English, 16.
Quilts, 4, 5, 13, 14, 16, 86, 104, 293.
