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Early American Charted Designs (Dover Needlework S.)

by I.Lucretia Hollingsworth and Connie H. Adams

Published 1 November 1988

Adult

Flower Embroidery Tutorial Book

The Potter Needlework Library (Potter Needlework Library)

Containing 24 projects inspired by medieval art, this book includes hunting scenes, depictions of chivalric endeavour and the plant and animal motifs which give medieval design its charm. These decorative themes are offered for practical items such as seat covers, cushions, a fire screen and a glasses case. Each project is illustrated by a colour reproduction of the medieval image that inspired it - a page from an illuminated manuscript, for example, or a piece of stained glass - and a colour ph...

Animal Faces Hand Embroidery Patterns

by Stitchx Embroidery

Published 11 April 2017

Adult

Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt

by Marianne Ellis

Published 1 June 2001

One of the world's most important collections of medieval Islamic embroideries is to be found in the Department of Eastern Art in Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum. The textiles were collected by the Egyptologist Percy Newberry between 1900 and 1930, while he was living in Cairo. Most of the embroideries were made in Egypt or Syria, they were mainly used as dress items and domestic furnishings, but the collection also has a number of samplers. Much of the material is now fragmentary, but the...