The Development of Embroidery in America
by Candace Wheeler
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wheeler, Candace, 1827-1923
- Credits
- Produced by Constanze Hofmann and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- NK: Fine Arts: Decorative and Applied Arts, Decoration and Ornament
- Subject
- Tapestry -- United States
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 24165
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24165
- Release Date
- January 4, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMBROIDERY IN AMERICA
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.ILLUSTRATIONS — THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMBROIDERY IN AMERICA
- 4.INTRODUCTORY THE STORY OF THE NEEDLE
- 5.CHAPTER I BEGINNINGS IN THE NEW WORLD
- 6.CHAPTER II THE CREWELWORK OF OUR PURITAN MOTHERS
- 7.CHAPTER III SAMPLERS AND A WORD ABOUT QUILTS — Quilts
- 8.CHAPTER IV MORAVIAN WORK, PORTRAITURE, FRENCH EMBROIDERY, AND LACEWORK — French Embroidery — Lacework
- 9.CHAPTER V BERLIN WOOLWORK
- 10.CHAPTER VI REVIVAL OF EMBROIDERY, AND THE FOUNDING OF THE SOCIETY OF DECORATIVE ART
- 11.CHAPTER VII AMERICAN TAPESTRY
- 12.CHAPTER VIII THE BAYEUX TAPESTRIES
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