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 18
uality—so that its gloss and i4 ART NEEDLEWORK. colour are just what they were nearly a hundred years ago—and thedesign being exactly suited to the materials, the result still showsthe refined and just perceptions of the worker and of the age inwhich she lived. It is with a view to the production… … CH A PTER I I. ON DESIGN. E have seen that, the art of needlework being confinedwithin narrower limits than that of painting, it becomesnecessary, while adopting natural forms, to convention-alise them to suit our purpose ; and that a knowledgeof what can and what cannot be accomplished by the…
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