Embroidery
the art of producing on textile fabrics, leather and other materials. Embroidery is closely allied to lace-work, which is the direct development of the cut, drawn, and embroidered ment of the cut, drawn, and embroidered linen of the classic and early Christian does not admit of appliqué, which, in conjunction with embroidery, forms a separate art in itself; nor should it be confused with tapestry work, which is ery. Embroidery has had many schools and styles, but it may be classed under six general heads: and styles, but it may be classed under work done on linen or cotton in threads of the same color as the textile, and where the ornamentation is dependent of the same color as the textile, and and the form of the design for its beauty.
This work includes cut work and drawn and the form of the design for its beauty.
This work includes cut work and drawn comes lace. work, to the point where netlike interand cottons are embroidered in colors with either silk, cotton, or wool. This work includes most of the Oriental work, with either silk, cotton, or wool. This ornament, and fine needlework and for work includes most of the Oriental work, disposition of color. This work in fine wool reaches its highest excellence in the India shawls, which are the nearest bond between embroidery and weaving. disposition of color. This work in fine wool reaches its highest excellence in the threads and spangles are sometimes used in addition to the metal threads. The Italians and Spanish of the 16th century, and the Orientals (notably the Japanese), have done much in this class of work.
EMERALD 4. Silk, gold and wool. This style canvas, where the foundation textile is entirely hidden by the regular interreached its highest excellence in the ecthe 15th and 16th centuries.
5. Silk and wool embroidery on coarse canvas, where the foundation textile is entirely hidden by the regular interrials of the fine work of the past, and woven stitches. This work often so nearly confusion in distinguishing them. 6. Modern imitations in coarse materials of the fine work of the past, and work, etc. known variously as crewel work, tapestry work, etc. cially when within the seed. The term or the rudimentary young plant, especially when within the seed. The term term larva is also applied to a young animal which is more or less markedly term larva is also applied to a young different from the adult form. biology which traces the development of gives the history of the organism from its earliest individual appearance till it changes that take place in the embryo, all the anatomical and physiological whether in the uterus or the egg. The changes that take place in the embryo, investigation necessarily takes two structural stages, and an analysis of the The development of the chick was watched and Galen; and in 1651 Harvey sought to establish two main propositions: (1) by new formation (epigenesis), not from that every animal was produced from an ovum, and (2) that the organs arose by new formation (epigenesis), not from the expansion of some invisible preformation. But as a systematic science embryology dates from the 19th century. genesis, and showed that the germ con- Wolff in 1759 reasserted Harvey's epiand that the process of development was sisted of almost structureless material, a gradual organization. In 1817 Pander took up Wolff's work virtually where he left it. He was immediately re-enforced and soon left behind by Von Baer, whose investigations laid a firm foundation for modern embryology. Since the establishment of the cell-theory in 1838-1839, and the now well-known facts that the in the division of the fertilized ovum and differentiation of the results, progress has been rapid. sex-cells, and that development consists differentiation of the results, progress emerald-green in place of pale green, tinguished from the latter by being L EMERALD ISLE light blue, yellow or white, the colors of the beryl. The finest emeralds are found in Peru, but they occur in various other places. In heraldry, the term designates the green tincture in coat-armor; vert.