Empire Style Embroideries: In England a lighter style of attenuated elegance was preferred. Designers, of whom Robert Adam was one of the most important, favored slender, elongated forms with very little ornament, as well as the chastely classical motif of a swag of laurel or drapery engraved or lightly embossed. The archaeological classicism of the French style became severer and even more monumental under the Empire style embroideries; Napoleon was anxious to surround himself with splendors emulating those of imperial Rome.
Embroideries. Made in needlepoint and silk during all historic periods of decoration, usually by women. |
