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Title: The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed.
Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries

Author: Elizabeth Stone

Editor: Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Wilton

Release Date: March 20, 2010 [EBook #31714]

Language: English

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THE ART
OF
NEEDLE-WORK,
FROM THE EARLIEST AGES;

INCLUDING
SOME NOTICES OF THE
ANCIENT HISTORICAL TAPESTRIES

EDITED BY
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE COUNTESS OF WILTON.

"I WRITE THE NEEDLE'S PRAYSE."

_THIRD EDITION._

LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,
GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1841.

TO

HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY

THE QUEEN DOWAGER

THIS LITTLE WORK,

INTENDED TO ILLUSTRATE THE HISTORY AND PROGRESS OF AN ART
ENNOBLED BY HER MAJESTY'S PRACTICE, AND BY HER EXAMPLE
RECOMMENDED TO THE

WOMEN OF ENGLAND,

IS,
BY HER MAJESTY'S MOST GRACIOUS PERMISSION,

INSCRIBED,

WITH THE UTMOST RESPECT,
BY HER MAJESTY'S MOST GRATEFUL
AND MOST OBEDIENT SERVANT,

THE AUTHORESS.

PREFACE.

If there be one mechanical art of more universal application than all
others, and therefore of more universal interest, it is that which is
practised with the NEEDLE. From the stateliest denizen of the proudest
palace, to the humblest dweller in the poorest cottage, all more or
less ply the busy needle; from the crying infant of a span long and an
hour's life, to t