The Dictionary of Needlework
LIBRARY ^fsSSACHc,,^^ 1895 .1-^ Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Boston Library Consortium IVIember Libraries sJlttp://^yyw.archive.org/details/dictionaryofneed01caul <^ ' jii'P-^^'^'^^'' THE DICTIONARY OF NEEDLEWORK. GERMAN CROSS STITCH PATTERN. RUSSIAN CROSS STITCH PATTERN. ITALIAN CROSS STITCH PATTERN. DEDICATED TO H.R.H. PRINCESS LOUISE, MARCHIONESS OF LORNE. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OE ARTISTIC, PLAIN, AND EANCY NEEDLEWORK, DEALING FULLY WITH THE DETAILS OP ALL THE STITCHES EMPLOYED, THE METHOD OP WORKING, THE MATERIALS USED, THE MEANING OF TECHNICAL TERMS, AND, WHERE NECESSARY, TRACING THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OP THE VARIOUS WORKS DESCRIBED. ILLUSTRATED WITH UPWARDS OF 1200 WOOD ENGRAVINGS, AND COLOURED PLATES. PLAIN SEWING, TEXTILES, DRESSMAKING, APPLIANCES, AND TERMS, By S. E. a. CAULEEILD, Author of "Side Nursing at Home," ^*Dc6Hiond," "Avcncle," and Faper6- on Needlework in ^'Thc Queen" "Girl's Omi Paper,' "Cassell's Domestic Dictionary" tOc. CHURCH EMBKOIDERY, LACE, AND ORNAMENTAL NEEDLEWORK, By BLANCHE C. SAWARD, Author of "Church Festival Decoration-'^" and Papers on Fa/ncy and Art Work in "The Bazaar," "Artistic Amusements," "Girl's Own Paper,'^ <Cr. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: A. W. COWAN, 30 AND 31, NEW BRIDGE STREET, LUDGATE CIRCUS. LONDON : PBINTED BY A. BRADLEY. 170, STRAND. ^^.c^^yj- C7 TO HER EOTAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS LOUISE, MARCHIONESS OE LORNE, THIS BOOK IS, BY HER SPECIAL PERMISSION, DEDICATED, In Acknowledgment of the Great Services which, by Means of Hee Cultivated Taste and Cordial Patronage, She has Rendered to the Arts of Plain Sewing and Embroidery. PREFACE TO FIRST EDITIOI. JOHN TAYLOR, in Queen Elizabeth's time, wrote a poem entirely in praise of Needlework; we, in a less romantic age, do not publish a poem, but a Dictionary, not in praise, but in practice, of the Art.
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