English embroidery

This volume will form a reliable guide through the main ways of an intricate subject. To describe every important example of English embroidery existing would require a widerexperience and unlimited space. It has not been thought necessary to swell the text bypointing out every occasion where the views therein expressed differ from those formulated by other writers.

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Table of Contents:

Copyright

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ENGLISH EMBROIDERY

PREFACE

THE FIRST CHAPTER INTRODUCTORY

THE SECOND CHAPTER THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD

THE THIRD CHAPTER NORMAN AND EARLY ENGLISH PERIOD

THE FOURTH CHAPTER THE GREAT PERIOD (circa 1270-1330)

THE SIXTH CHAPTER \THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

THE SEVENTH CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

THE EIGHTH CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

SOME USEFUL BOOKS OF REFERENCE

INDEX