Embroidery Enthusiast's Library: 16 Must-Read Books
Victorian Manuals, Historic Techniques, and Essays on Textile Art, Design, and Domestic CraftBy Paul Heyse, Mrs. Beeton, Emily Leigh Lowes, Hinda M. Hands, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust Viscountess Alford, Cyril Davenport, Candace Wheeler, Anne Knox Arthur, Marcus B. Huish, John Butler Yeats, A. F. Morris Hands, Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam, Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison, Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
Length90h 12m
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Embroidery Enthusiast's Library: 16 Must-Read Books gathers a remarkably wide field of writing on needlework: practical instruction, household guidance, design criticism, historical survey, aesthetic reflection, and literary evocation. Rather than treating embroidery as a merely ornamental pastime, the volume situates it within the material culture of dress, interiors, education, collecting, and women's artistic labor. Its range—from usable techniques and patterns to accounts of textile traditions and arguments for cultivated design—makes the collection an illuminating record of how embroidery moved between domestic accomplishment and serious art. The contributors bring together novelists, household authorities, craft teachers, decorators, art historians, collectors, and cultural commentators from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their diverse backgrounds reveal embroidery's connections to Victorian domestic reform, the Arts and Crafts valuation of handwork, expanding opportunities for women's instruction, and renewed interest in historic textiles. Across these voices, practical expertise meets criticism and social history, allowing needlework to emerge as both an inherited tradition and a living medium of taste, identity, and creative expression. This volume is especially recommended for embroiderers, textile historians, students of material culture, and readers interested in women's cultural history. It offers the rare opportunity to compare methods, ideals, and vocabularies across multiple genres in one compendium. Read together, these works provide both instruction and a rich dialogue about craftsmanship, beauty, labor, and the enduring significance of the handmade.
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GenreOther, Literary Classics
Length90 hrs 12 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages
26GUIPURE D'ART.
2INTRODUCTION
27DRAWN THREAD WORK.
3CHAPTER II
28MACRAMÉ.
4CHAPTER III
29CROCHET.
5CHAPTER V
30KNITTING.
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6CHAPTER VI
31ODDS AND ENDS.
7CHAPTER VIII
32Barbarossa, and Other Tales
8CHAPTER X
33BARBAROSSA.
9CHAPTER XI
34EMBROIDERESS OF TREVISO.
10Embroidery and Fancy Work
35LOTTKA.
11INTRODUCTION.
36THE LOST SON.
12DECORATIVE DESIGN.
37THE FAIR KATE.
13EMBROIDERY.
38GEOFFROY AND GARCINDE.
14PAINTING IN OILS.
39Eastern Shame Girl
15FLOWER PAINTING
40Eastern Shame Girl
16KENSINGTON AND LUSTRA PAINTING.
41EASTERN SHAME GIRL
17STENCILLING.
42A STRANGE DESTINY
18WOOD CARVING.
43THE COUNTERFEIT OLD WOMAN
19MODELLING IN CLAY.
44A COMPLICATED MARRIAGE
20CASTING IN PLASTER.
45The Development of Embroidery in America
21MODELLING IN GUTTA-PERCHA.
46CHAPTER I BEGINNINGS IN THE NEW WORLD
22LEATHER WORK
47CHAPTER III SAMPLERS AND A WORD ABOUT QUILTS
23REPOUSSEE WORK.
48CHAPTER IV MORAVIAN WORK, PORTRAITURE, FRENCH EMBROIDERY, AND LACEWORK
24TO TRANSFER PATTERNS.
49CHAPTER V BERLIN WOOLWORK
25NETTING.
50CHAPTER VIII THE BAYEUX TAPESTRIES
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