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embroidered cloths used in Spain for this purpose ; they
are of hand-spun linen, bordered with old lace ; conventional
flower desimis and various wonderful lookinof animals are
worked upon them in coloured silks and, like the Indian
embroideries of the same nature, the work is precisely alike
on both sides. One of these cloths has the Svastika many
times repeated upon it. The same symbol was present also
on an ordinary well worn pocket handkerchief at Granada
it formed its only ornamentation. Enquiries failed to procure
such a one, or to ascertain where they were manufactured.
This kind of embroidery was evidently known in early
Jewish times, for in the Song of Deborah (Judges v. 30)
mention is made " of needlework of divers colours, of divers
colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of
them that take the spoil."
The Svastika has been found in nearly every country in
Europe. In a letter written a few years ago by Prof Max
Miiller to Dr Schliemann, and quoted in the latter's work
entitled Ilium, or the Cities of Troy (where this and also
Sun-symbols have been found in great numbers), the Professor
says— " It (the Svastika) has been found on Bishop's Island,
near Konigswalde on the right bank of the Oder ;
discovered at Reichersdorf near Gruben ;
on a vase
a whole row of this
emblem surrounds the pulpit of Saint Ambrose at Milan ;
in the Catacombs at Rome it occurs a thousand times ; it is
seen also on wall paintings at Pompeii ;
on a Celtic urn found
at Shropham in Norfolk and now in the British Museum ;
also on ancient Athenian and Corinthian vases ; on
coins of Leucas of Syracuse ;
and
the
in the large mosaic in
/lie royal garden at Athens. It is found in Hungary
;