Art in Needle Work: An In-depth Book About Embroidery (Illustrated)

The purpose of this book is to look at needlework, embroidery, as a beautiful artistic endeavor in a practical way. Embroidery as a handicraft and an art and should be viewed in no other way. If it were not, why spend time writing or reading a book about it?

This book is addressed to students of embroidery, needle-workers, and designers of needlework. It sets forth to show what decorative stitching is, how it is done, and what it can do. It is illustrated by samplers of stitches; by diagram...