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The embroiderer's book of design : containing initials, emblems, cyphers, monograms, ornamental borders, ecclesiastical devices, mediæval and modern alphabets, and national emblems

Delamotte, F. (Freeman), 1814-1862 · 1891 · London [England] : Crosby Lockwood and Son · 27 pictures

A pattern book of lettering and ornament compiled by Freeman Delamotte and published by Crosby Lockwood and Son in London in 1891, made for embroiderers and needleworkers copying designs onto cloth. Plates print full alphabets, monograms, borders and ecclesiastical devices in single flat inks—red, violet, blue—with foliate scrollwork and pen flourishes, ready for tracing, stencilling or vector redraw.

Embroidery · Alphabets

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