Name/Title
Embroidery : a historyEntry/Object ID
NK9243.W37 1991Description
"This history of mainstream embroidery covers the various influences from early textile structures, through medieval techniques to the mid-20th century and includes details of important historical examples. The changes in technique are linked to living conditions and fashions of the period." -- PUBLISHERLexicon
Search Terms
embroidery--england--historyBook Details
Author
Pamela WarnerPublisher
B.T. BatsfordDate Published
1991ISBN
0713461063, 9780713461060LCCN
92145343Notes
Length: 208General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
Early techniques -- Early English embroidery -- Opus Anglicanum -- Embroidery and tapestries of the fifteenth century -- The embroidery of the Tudor era -- Seventeenth-century embroidery -- Needlemade laces -- The migration of European embroidery to North America -- Embroidery of the eighteenth century -- Nineteenth-century embroidery techniques -- Whitework and imitation laces of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The influence of the Arts and Crafts Movement -- A summary of the embrodiery of the early twentieth century.