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Art embroidery: a treatise on the revived practice of decorative needlework (1878)

Lockwood, Mary S. (Mary Smith), 1831-1922, Glaister, Elizabeth, Crane, Thomas, b. 1843? · London, M. Ward & co. · leaf 10

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to priority in the title Art Needlework. This was not dis-covered until it was too late to make the necessary alterations. CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I.—Introductory, ....... 7 II.—On Design, . . . ; > . 15 III.—On Colour, . . . . . 25 IV.—On Materials and Stitches, . . . 35 V.—On Methods and Uses, . .… … OT the least important result of the present revivalof decorative art is that needlework, so long neglected,is once more practised as an art, properly so called.It is many years since the samplers of our grand-mothers gave place to the fancy-work of modern times, and weare only now beginning to…

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