Vintage French Needlework: 300 Authentic Cross-Stitch Patterns-Flowers, Borders, and Alphabets from Antique Textiles

Carefully transcribed from vintage table, dowry, and bed linens, this treasury of easy—to—use patterns allows today's stitchers to enrich their projects with original 1800s touches.

Sharing the result of her years combing dusty attics, archives, brocantes, and antique shops for vintage handstitched items and rare needlework manuals, embroidery expert Véronique Maillard here offers the patterns used by French women in the 1800s and early 1900s to prepare their dowry chests or to customize t...