fictile

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Greek embroideries we can perfectly appreciate, by studying Hope’s “Costumes of the Ancients,” and the works of Millingen and others; also the fictile vases in the British Museum and elsewhere.

From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

"Jupiter angusta vix totus stabat in �de; Inque Jovis dextra fictile fulmen erat."

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

Dr. Klemm long ago pointed out that the oldest German fictile vases have an ornamentation in which plaiting is imitated by incised lines.

From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Allen, Grant

We learn this from the paintings on Greek fictile vases.

From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

Textile and fictile arts are, in their earlier stages, to a large extent, vessel making arts, the one being functionally the offshoot of the other.

From A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages 189-252) by Holmes, William Henry