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Art in needlework; a book about embroidery (1900)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910, Buckle, Mary · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 244

An illustration from Art in needlework; a book about embroidery, 1900, leaf 244 — quallyprofane purposes. Practical considerations, alike of ceremonial anddecoration, make it imperative that church workshould be effective: religious sentiment insists thatit should be of the best and richest, unsparingly,and even lavishly given ; common sense dictatesthat the loving labour spent… … 86. RENAISSANCE CHURCH WORK. 218 ART IN NEEDLEWORK. consecrated stitch, no stitch exclusively belong-ing to the church, none probably invented by it.For embroidery is a primitive art—clothes werestitched before ever churches were furnished; andEuropean methods of embroidery are all derivedfrom…

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