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

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

The inferiority of their religious architecture was due to the natural formation of their country, which restricted them almost entirely to the use of a fictile material.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir

When the remains were burned, a fictile vessel was used to contain the ashes.

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances

Impressions upon pottery represent a class of work utilized in the fictile arts.

From Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 393-425 by Holmes, William Henry