Candace Wheeler's 1921 history of needlework in America, from Native American quillwork and the arrival of the Puritans through the late nineteenth century. Chapters cover colonial crewelwork, samplers and quilts, Moravian embroidery and portraiture, French embroidery, lacework, Berlin woolwork, the revival of embroidery and the Society of Decorative Art, American tapestry, and the Bayeux Tapestry. It is illustrated with about 36 photographic plates of samplers, bed hangings, Moravian pictures, fire screens, baby caps, wedding garments and lace, many credited to museums and families. It includes some discussion of dyeing, homespun linen and the relation of cross-stitch to weaving.