Artistic embroidery : containing practical instructions in the ornamental branches of needlework
An instructional needlework manual by Ella Rodman Church, published in New York by Adams & Bishop in 1880 for home embroiderers. Wood-engraved diagrams show lace fillings, darned net grounds and satin-stitch flowers worked over square grids, giving designers repeatable geometric mesh patterns, radiating petal motifs and looped line drawings that read as clean black-on-cream ornament.
