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accomplished and experienced skill. It is not, however, until after the dawn of the Christian era that we find this technique developed to its highest application, the rendition of pictorial designs. The pre-Christian fragments left to us show only conventional patterns but as early as the second century unclear we find pictures, notably portraits, accurately and beautifully woven.- There follows the first great period of high artistic achievement in tapestry, centered in Egypt and lasting five or six hundred years, perhaps longer from the production of these Egyptian looms, unclear by Copts, the Christians of Egypt descended from the original Egyptian race, hundreds of fragments have come to us. But only a dozen or so show the art in its central and most important function, the reproduction of pictorial models-- It was from Egypt that the art was carried into Europe, carried probably by Copt monks who