Needlework as art . cclesiastical decoration,employed down to the fifteenth century, both for Europeanand British textiles. The Swastika, as well as the wavepattern, is of mysterious and universal antiquity, and hascertainly traversed four thousand years,-—how much morewe dare not say. It is to be found throughout Egyptian and Indian art—never inthat of Assyria. Of the time of Ramesesthe Second we have twofigures in a mural painting, anally and an enemy, aguestanda prisoner, both clothed in em-broidered garments, parsemdswith the prehistoric cross. In the chapter on ecclesias-tical art I shall
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Needlework as art . cclesiastical decoration,employed down to the fifteenth century, both for Europeanand British textiles. The Swastika, as well as the wavepattern, is of mysterious and universal antiquity, and hascertainly traversed four thousand years,-—how much morewe dare not say. It is to be found throughout Egyptian and Indian art—never inthat of Assyria. Of the time of Ramesesthe Second we have twofigures in a mural painting, anally and an enemy, aguestanda prisoner, both clothed in em-broidered garments, parsemdswith the prehistoric cross. In the chapter on ecclesias-tical art I shall