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The Embroiderer's Story:
Needlework from the Renaissance to the Present Day

by Thomasina Beck

ISBN 0715302388 / 9780715302385 / 0-7153-0238-8
Publisher Sterling Pub Co Inc
Language English
Edition Hardcover
List price $29.95
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Using historical sources, Beck surveys embroiderers and their work from Elizabethan times to the present day. She discusses their sources of inspiration and design, as well as the changing ways in which they used these in dress and furnishings. The book includes sample motifs and stitch layouts. [via]