Notes on New England Needlework before 1800
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Article by Gertrude Townsend surveying decorative needlework made in New England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It draws on probate records, newspaper advertisements of needlework teachers, and surviving pieces such as the Leverett casket, samplers, stump work, and needlepoint chimney-pieces like the Fishing Lady. It traces design sources to English and French prints (Stella, Wootton, Pater) and is illustrated with ten figures plus a frontispiece, with footnoted references.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1944
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 22
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