Samplers & tapestry embroideries
- Author(s): Marcus Bourne Huish
- Category: Textiles, Clothing & Accessories
- Publisher: Longmans, Green and co.
- Publish year: 1913
- ISBN: 9678000007124
- Number of Pages: 290
The sampler as a pattern, or example, from which to learn varieties of needlework, whether of design or stitches, must have existed almost as long as the Art of embroidery, which we know dates back into as distant a past as any of the Arts.
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Copyright
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
CONTENTS
LIST OF COLOUR PLATES
ENGLISH NEEDLEWORK
PART I - SAMPLERS
PART II - EMBROIDERIES IN THE MANNER OF TAPESTRY PICTURES
PART III - STITCHERY OF PICTURES IN IMITATION OF TAPESTRY AND THE LIKE
II - THE STITCHERY OF SAMPLERS,WITH A NOTE ON THEIR MATERIALS
INDEX