Mastering Embroidery: 4 Classic Books on the Art of Embroidery
Classic Guides to Victorian Needlework, Decorative Stitches, and Textile DesignBy Candace Wheeler, Anne Knox Arthur, Marcus B. Huish
Length20h 46m
About this audiobook
Mastering Embroidery gathers four classic instructional texts into a rich survey of embroidery as both domestic art and serious design practice. Moving between practical guidance, historical observation, aesthetic principle, and pattern-minded craftsmanship, the volume reveals the breadth of needlework traditions at a moment when embroidery was being reassessed as an expressive art. Its selections encompass materials, stitches, colour, ornament, composition, and the relation of handwork to interior decoration and cultural inheritance. Particularly compelling are the passages that treat embroidery not merely as ornament, but as a medium of disciplined invention. The collection brings together Candace Wheeler, Anne Knox Arthur, and Marcus B. Huish, writers whose perspectives join artistic advocacy, technical instruction, and historical appreciation. Their works belong to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century revival of decorative arts, when reformers and practitioners challenged the separation between "fine" art and craft. Across different professional and cultural positions, these voices illuminate embroidery's links to women's education, artisanal skill, design reform, and the preservation of inherited techniques. Their convergence gives the anthology unusual depth, balancing usable knowledge with a larger account of needlework's social and aesthetic significance. This volume is recommended for students of textile history, makers, design scholars, and readers drawn to the Arts and Crafts legacy. It offers a rare opportunity to compare approaches within a single compendium, tracing a productive dialogue between technique, taste, history, and creative labor.
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GenreOther, Literary Classics
Length20 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Development of Embroidery in America
2The Development of Embroidery in America
3CHAPTER I BEGINNINGS IN THE NEW WORLD
4CHAPTER III SAMPLERS AND A WORD ABOUT QUILTS
5CHAPTER IV MORAVIAN WORK, PORTRAITURE, FRENCH EMBROIDERY, AND LACEWORK
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6CHAPTER V BERLIN WOOLWORK
7CHAPTER VIII THE BAYEUX TAPESTRIES
8Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries
9Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries
10List of Colour Plates
11PART I Samplers
12PART II Embroideries in the Manner of Tapestry Pictures
13II.—The Stitchery of Samplers, with a Note on their Materials
14An Embroidery Book
15An embroidery book
16CHAPTER I
17CHAPTER II
18CHAPTER III
19CHAPTER IV
20CHAPTER V
21CHAPTER VI
22CHAPTER VII
23CHAPTER VIII
24CHAPTER IX
25CHAPTER X
26CHAPTER XI
27CHAPTER XII
28CHAPTER XIII
29Embroidery and Fancy Work
30INTRODUCTION.
31DECORATIVE DESIGN.
32EMBROIDERY.
33PAINTING IN OILS.
34FLOWER PAINTING
35KENSINGTON AND LUSTRA PAINTING.
36STENCILLING.
37WOOD CARVING.
38MODELLING IN CLAY.
39CASTING IN PLASTER.
40MODELLING IN GUTTA-PERCHA.
41LEATHER WORK
42REPOUSSEE WORK.
43TO TRANSFER PATTERNS.
44NETTING.
45GUIPURE D'ART.
46DRAWN THREAD WORK.
47MACRAMÉ.
48CROCHET.
49KNITTING.
50ODDS AND ENDS.
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