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Title: Encyclopedia of Needlework

Author: Therese de Dillmont

Release Date: March 8, 2007 [EBook #20776]

Language: English

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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF

NEEDLEWORK

BY

THERESE DE DILLMONT

[Illustration]

_ENGLISH EDITION_

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_of TH. DE DILLMONT, DORNACH, Alsace, and at all booksellers, and
embroidery shops._

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Price, English bound with gilt edges:

English edition Sh. 3.--
French edition Fr. 5.75
German edition Mk. 3.--

Preface.

The absolute want of any comprehensive book on needlework--such an one
as contains both verbal and pictorial descriptions of everything
included under the name of needlework--has led me to put into the
serviceable form of an Encyclopedia, all the knowledge and experience,
which years of unceasing study and practice have enabled me to
accumulate on the subject, with the hope that diligent female workers of
all ages, may be able, by its means to instruct themselves in every
branch of plain and fancy needlework.

All the patterns given, even the most insignificant, were worked afresh
for the purpose, and thus, not merely faithful representations, but also
lucid and intelligible explanations of the same, are secured.

In order that my readers may have something besides the dull theory, the
work is enlivened by a number of useful patterns, some new, some derived
from the artistic productions of such countries and epochs as have
become famous by special excellence in the domain of needlework.

Though, at first sight, the reproduction of many of these patterns may
seem to present insuperable difficulties, they will, after a careful
study of the text, an