Church Embroidery
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Anastasia Dolby's 1867 handbook on ecclesiastical needlework, with practical instruction on designing and working embroidery for the church. It opens with a history of English church embroidery (Opus Anglicanum), then describes eight altar designs with colour schemes and working dimensions, followed by super-frontals, monograms, powderings, pulpit and desk hangings, sermon-cases, alms-bags, dish-mats, book-markers and church linen. Later chapters cover appliqué, embroidery frames and hand care, gold work (couching, bullion, passing, pearl-purl), long-stitch and French knots, and suitable fabrics and liturgical colours. Illustrated with line-drawn plates and photographed stitch samples; an index and publisher's advertisements follow.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1867
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 222
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