The Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Textiles, has published
a scholarly Catalogue of Textiles from Burying- Grounds in Egypt by Mr. A. F. Kendrick (Stationery Office, 5s. net). This first volume of the catalogue describes some three hundred examples of Graeco-Roman textiles, with introductory essays and a number of photographs. Ancient Egypt was cele- brated for its textiles, and these fragments, dating mainly from the fourth and fifth centuries of our era, are unquestionably attractive and tasteful in design, with the instinctive elegance that Greece impressed on everything that came under her influence. Some of the patterns will seem familiar because they have been repeated with slight variations ever since both in Eastern woven or printed stuffs and in the Manchester repro- ductions of them for the Eastern markets.
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