But not, it seemed, just the scrolling patterns with which the designer embellished dresses that might be shown under a new favorite of the fashion season: the narrow cape.
Scrolling patterns of flowers and leaves filled with geometric filling stitches are characteristic of blackwork from the 1540s through 1590s, and similar patterns worked in coloured silks appear from the 1560s, outlined in backstitch and filled with detached buttonhole stitch.
Outer clothing and furnishings of woven silk brocades and velvets were ornamented with gold and silver embroidery in linear or scrolling patterns, applied bobbin lace and passementerie, and small jewels.
The apse decoration of San Clemente (the 1st half of the 12th century), for example, contains a scroll pattern (rinceaux) reproduced from a 4th-century decoration in a technique that in many respects resembles that of the Paschal mosaics.
A vivid example is a small, round 13th-century box with a configuration of spirals, called a "pommel scroll pattern," carved about a quarter-inch deep on its top: looking closely, you can see that the sides of the V-shaped grooves are striated by many fine layers of green, black and yellow.
The leather is elaborately tooled with scrolling foliage patterns.
These jackets usually featured scrolling floral patterns worked in a multiplicity of stitches.
The seven plates, damascened overall with gold foil, are embellished with highly detailed dragons, writhing amid the intricate scroll patterning and punctuated by stone ornaments.
Similarly, a late-18th- or early-19th-century New Mexican embroidered wool bed covering was woven with floral elements, including seven large C-scroll patterns, which resemble cotton or calico fabrics imported to New Mexico from East India.
In the final days before the new ceiling was installed, its curlicues and scroll patterns -- painted on canvas after stencils of the original ceiling were made -- dominated much of the studio's floor and wall space.
