Artistic embroidery : containing practical instructions in the ornamental branches of needlework (1880)
Church, Ella Rodman, b. 1831 · New York : Adams & Bishop · leaf 38
, that theymight serve as illustrations to a small encyclopaedia. One acquaintedwith Chinese literature and natural history might deliver severallectures with this book before him. The meadow, the grove, thebrook, the antiquarys museum, and the pages of mythology, withthe adornments of the house… … Fig. 35, 34 ARTISTIC EMBROIDERY. while tlie red gallery denotes the residence of a rich female. Theindustrious poor plies her task near the green lattice, which is madeof earthenware and lets in both the light and the breath of heaven;while the rich dame leans upon the vermeil-tinted balusters of…
Embroidery
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