Embroidery
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A one-page encyclopedia article on embroidery by Russell Sturgis. It defines embroidery as needlework on textile, leather and similar grounds, and surveys its use and fashions in the nineteenth century, including Kashmir shawls and machine embroidery. It also sketches its history, with the Middle Ages and English pictorial work of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and briefly describes couching, appliqué, chain-stitch and crewel work.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1902
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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