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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 6 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 58553 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 76 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 illustration 3 work 3 Paris 3 Collection 2 gold 2 embroidery 2 century 2 Tapestry 2 Renaissance 2 Gobelins 2 France 2 Europe 2 England 2 Charles 1 time 1 thread 1 stitch 1 sidenote 1 portion 1 plate 1 pattern 1 needle 1 method 1 material 1 man 1 long 1 line 1 like 1 lend 1 history 1 high 1 great 1 good 1 french 1 footnote 1 day 1 date 1 chapter 1 art 1 York 1 XIV 1 Wool 1 William 1 Van 1 Tib 1 Stitch 1 St. 1 Sixteenth 1 Sir 1 Silk Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 957 tapestry 955 work 686 time 662 thread 662 stitch 539 illustration 446 sampler 434 art 427 piece 422 design 401 century 366 day 330 embroidery 320 gold 317 material 315 man 307 hand 304 colour 303 line 302 fig 297 way 292 part 288 pattern 276 year 262 figure 257 border 256 needle 247 king 236 silk 236 one 234 place 224 example 223 weaver 215 use 215 side 213 loom 205 kind 203 life 201 flower 193 subject 192 sidenote 191 lady 189 history 180 end 179 name 177 ground 177 artist 174 factory 173 hanging 170 point Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 3583 _ 257 de 252 Fig 222 Century 189 Gobelins 175 France 151 Paris 150 England 147 Tapestry 138 W. 135 Louis 125 Brussels 122 St. 117 Renaissance 115 la 113 Collection 112 King 107 Charles 106 Museum 106 H. 92 . 90 Stitch 88 FIG 87 Europe 84 Queen 82 SAMPLER 82 New 79 William 77 Henry 77 Gothic 76 Sir 76 Italy 74 John 73 et 72 XIV 71 York 69 Van 69 French 67 Wool 66 c. 66 Elizabeth 65 Art 64 ft 64 Jean 62 le 62 English 60 Raphael 59 Plate 59 God 58 Christ Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 2937 it 941 they 863 he 701 we 631 them 443 i 416 she 288 him 177 us 159 her 151 you 119 me 96 itself 95 himself 78 themselves 46 one 34 herself 13 thee 10 ourselves 8 myself 5 theirs 4 ours 4 his 3 ce 2 yourself 2 oneself 2 je 1 yours 1 with:-- 1 wart 1 trye 1 thyself 1 these:-- 1 them:-- 1 that,-- 1 sho 1 pelf 1 mine 1 hymself 1 hers 1 hem 1 ha 1 copy:-- 1 12_l 1 ''em Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 12002 be 2357 have 825 make 609 work 540 do 489 see 412 give 402 take 357 show 348 use 327 come 282 say 277 weave 265 find 245 know 219 carry 203 draw 195 leave 192 follow 191 go 188 set 181 seem 178 call 175 bring 148 become 143 appear 140 produce 140 bear 134 form 131 pass 129 represent 125 cover 123 place 118 hold 117 keep 116 look 116 embroider 113 require 107 begin 106 hang 104 illustrate 103 put 103 date 102 stand 102 fill 100 tell 100 add 99 lay 99 consider 94 wear Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1247 not 726 so 577 more 503 other 461 great 442 most 430 well 425 very 378 only 374 then 360 such 359 even 351 much 347 out 347 first 338 same 332 many 312 as 292 long 288 also 283 now 281 up 281 good 263 high 258 little 257 early 246 fine 234 old 226 too 221 thus 208 in 205 small 202 here 196 own 192 almost 190 large 188 often 181 various 178 still 159 rich 158 down 155 there 145 few 144 simple 143 new 143 far 140 however 135 probably 134 sometimes 133 beautiful Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 90 good 69 most 60 early 53 least 47 high 43 great 34 fine 18 rich 14 simple 7 old 7 large 7 Most 6 noble 6 low 5 late 5 eld 4 wise 4 proud 4 lines:-- 4 full 4 bad 3 young 3 poor 3 gay 3 deep 3 dear 3 able 2 wealthy 2 warm 2 thick 2 small 2 slight 2 pure 2 neat 2 near 2 mighty 2 manif 2 lovely 2 light 2 l 2 keen 2 holy 2 happy 2 fair 2 MOST 1 wr 1 wide 1 weak 1 vow''d 1 veri Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 373 most 12 well 3 least 1 tempest 1 farthest 1 early Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 www.gutenberg.net Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/0/3/0/20386/20386-h/20386-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/0/3/0/20386/20386-h.zip Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 piece was probably 3 work is often 2 design carried out 2 embroidery is not 2 pattern carried out 2 patterns are frequently 2 piece is incomplete 2 piece is probably 2 pieces were probably 2 samplers are usually 2 stitch are also 2 tapestries are not 2 tapestries were not 2 tapestries woven there 2 tapestry is very 2 tapestry was evidently 2 thread is then 2 thread is usually 2 work is most 2 work is much 2 work is not 2 work is very 1 _ are almost 1 _ be as 1 _ became applicable 1 _ comes andrew 1 _ gave happy 1 _ have indeed 1 _ having peacocks 1 _ is almost 1 _ is exceptional 1 _ is often 1 _ is still 1 _ see _ 1 _ shows cavaliers 1 _ was _ 1 _ was almost 1 _ was burne 1 _ was formerly 1 _ was unknown 1 _ were exclusively 1 _ were thus 1 _ woven there 1 _ wrought _ 1 art being duly 1 art do not 1 art does not 1 art had not 1 art had time 1 art has consistently Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 embroidery is not so 2 tapestry is no longer 1 day are not ready 1 day is not so 1 days was not quite 1 part is no more 1 pieces are not pictures 1 tapestries are not only 1 tapestries were not frequent 1 tapestry be not history 1 tapestry weaving not nearly 1 time was not extensively 1 way is not toilsome 1 work is no more 1 work is not possible A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 26151 author = Candee, Helen Churchill title = The Tapestry Book date = keywords = Arras; Art; Brussels; Century; Charles; Collection; Europe; Fifteenth; France; Gobelins; Gothic; Henri; Italy; Lebrun; Louis; Museum; New; Paris; Raphael; Renaissance; Seventeenth; Sixteenth; Tapestry; XIV; York; illustration summary = Master-weavers were many in the best years of tapestry weaving; The time of Gothic perfection in tapestry-making is included in the In the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is a bit of tapestry, In the Fourteenth Century, tapestry, the high-warp product, began to products of the high-warp tapestries in the time of the greatest power The subjects for the set of tapestries had entirely left the old and looms and set artists and weavers to work. This ended for a time the work of the tapestry factory, to collect, and even to establish his tapestry looms like a king, for [Illustration: GOBELINS TAPESTRY, AFTER LEBRUN, EPOCH LOUIS XIV The tapestry masters of other times had both to work set of tapestries which was woven but once at the royal factory, designs and tapestry weavers of that time left us two distinct work for the weaver and less value to the tapestry. id = 20386 author = Christie, Grace title = Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving date = keywords = Fig; Stitch; chapter; embroidery; gold; illustration; line; material; method; pattern; plate; thread; work summary = Drawn Thread Work--Hem Stitching--Simple Border Patterns--Darned Thread good schemes of colour, and learn about stitches and methods of work by A spindle for winding gold thread upon whilst working is shown in fig. to work the lines of chain stitch in different shades of colour, and so a needle with two different coloured threads, commence the chain stitch Open chain stitch makes a good broad line; it looks best when worked centre of the working thread, which thus splits each stitch. when carrying out braid stitch, but work on the edge of the material as Patterns carried out in canvas stitches are sometimes to be seen worked In order to work it as a raised stitch, a line of some kind of Drawn Thread Work--Hem Stitching--Simple Border Patterns--Darned Thread Patterns--Corners--Cut or Open Work--Various Methods of Fig. 123 shows a couched line of gold thread outlining some silk embroidery, id = 41717 author = Huish, Marcus B. (Marcus Bourne) title = Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries Second Edition date = keywords = Collection; ELIZABETH; England; FIG; MARY; Mrs; Plate; SAMPLER; art; century; date; embroidery; illustration; portion; stitch; work summary = CUT AND DRAWN-WORK: ENLARGEMENT FROM 17TH CENTURY SAMPLER 163 BACK-STITCH: ENLARGEMENT OF PORTION OF SAMPLER IN FIG. An early specimen of a bordered Sampler, dated 1747, the rows being Mrs Millett''s piece (Fig. 16), the figures which appear upon samplers are drawn-work samplers--one by Elizabeth Wood, dated 1666, which contains sampler in "rows." A case, for instance, probably occurred, as in Fig. 24,[6] where a piece of decoration had a vacant space at its sides, and Elizabeth Greensmith''s sampler (Fig. 27), worked two years later, in 1737, In the second row of the sampler, Fig. 24, it is seen in a much simpler form, and it will also be found in Plate "The earliest German samplers seem to be worked entirely in cross-stitch, The centre designs in the two samplers illustrated are worked in fine samplers are done entirely in this stitch, worked in lines round and id = 31714 author = Menzies, Sutherland, active 1840-1883 title = The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries date = keywords = Alexander; Bishop; CHAPTER; Charles; Court; Duke; Earl; Edward; Elizabeth; England; English; Europe; France; Francis; God; Harold; Henry; Hodge; James; John; King; Lady; London; Lord; Mary; Mr.; NEEDLEWORK; Page; Paris; Paul; Pope; Prince; Queen; Sir; St.; Tapestry; Tib; William; day; footnote; french; gold; good; great; high; history; like; long; man; needle; time; work summary = with gold threads, was much more usually worked with the needle. clothing is of wrought gold." This is supposed to mean a garment richly embroidered with the needle in figures in gold thread, after time highly commended and accounted of in tapestrie worke: for even Pope Paschal had a robe worked with gold and gems, having the history figure of an armed man worked in gold thread: to the same field silk, thickly wrought with flowers of gold_; her hair was so beautiful than its rare work and richness: whatever king hath it on his head everything.'' ''It is the work of man,'' said the old knight; ''but rarely House in King John''s time, though taken from a work of fiction, [83] "The rich tapestry and arras hangings which belonged to St. James''s Palace, Hampton Court, Whitehall, and other Royal Seats, were "For our lady the queen''s use, sixty ells of fine linen cloth, forty id = 57518 author = San Francisco Museum of Art title = Catalogue of the Retrospective Loan Exhibition of European Tapestries date = keywords = Collection; Company; French; Gobelins; Paris; Renaissance; Silk; Van; Wool; century; illustration; lend; sidenote summary = tapestry-weaving in Europe, from the XIVth century down to and including tapestry design, even though in its final effect it appears not primarily patterns of later works the weaver follows the design drawn in outline weavers to set up a royal Russian tapestry works. most of the tapestry of the XVIIIth century must be stretched and set in No. 70), all worked on tapestry designs. This tapestry is an important example of a small group of hunting scenes types of tapestry decoration, the quaint animals in this piece being The drawing in these tapestries is rather unusually primitive for pieces important contributions of the Renaissance to tapestry design. tapestries were woven in Flanders in the second part of the XVIth century for the best tapestry decoration; but in this piece the beautifully drawn made designs for tapestries woven there, and, judging from the drawing This is one of a very famous set of tapestries illustrating the _Triumphs