Art in Needlework: A Book about Embroidery

Art in Needlework: A Book about Embroidery

Art in Needlework: A Book about EmbroideryEmbroidery may be looked at from more points of view than...
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Art in Needlework: A Book about Embroidery

Art in Needlework: A Book about Embroidery

$19.99 $9.99

Art in Needlework: A Book about Embroidery

$19.99 $9.99
Author: Buckle, Mary
Format: eBook
Language: English

Art in Needlework: A Book about Embroidery

Embroidery may be looked at from more points of view than it would be possible in a book like this to take up seriously. Merely to hover round the subject and glance casually at it would serve no useful purpose. It may be as well, therefore, to define our standpoint: we look at the art from its practical side, not, of course, neglecting the artistic, for the practical use of embroidery is to be beautiful. The custom has been, since woman learnt to kill time with the needle, to think of embroidery too much as an idle accomplishment. It is more than that. At the very least it is a handicraft: at the best it is an art. This contention may be to take it rather seriously; but if one esteemed it less it would hardly be worth writing about, and the book, when written, would not be worth the attention of students of embroidery, needleworkers, and designers of needlework to whom it is addressed. It sets forth to show what decorative stitching is, how it is done, and what it can do. It is illustrated by samplers of stitches;[vi] by diagrams, to explain the way stitches are done; and by examples of old and modern work, to show the artistic application of the stitches. A feature in the book is the series of samplers designed to show not only what are the available stitches, but the groups into which they naturally gather themselves, as well as the use to which they may be put: and the back of the sampler is given too: the reader has only to turn the page to see the other side of the stitchingwhich to a needlewoman is often the more helpful. Lest that should not be enough, the stitches are described in the text, and a marginal note shows at a glance where the description is given. This should be read needle and thread in handor skipped. Samplers and other examples of needlework are uniformly on a scale large enough to show the stitch quite plainly. The examples of old work illustrate always, in the first place, some point of workmanship; still they are chosen with some view to their artistic interest. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 28269
Author: Buckle, Mary
Release Date: Mar 7, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Contributor (Author): Day, Lewis F. (Lewis Foreman), 1845-1910


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