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Title: Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving

Author: Grace Christie

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_"Flowers, Plants and Fishes, Birds, Beasts, Flyes, and Bees,
Hils, Dales, Plaines, Pastures, Skies, Seas, Rivers, Trees,
There's nothing neere at hand, or farthest sought,
But with the needle may be shap'd and wrought."_

--JOHN TAYLOR ("The Praise of the Needle").

The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks
Edited by W. R. Lethaby

EMBROIDERY AND TAPESTRY WEAVING

A Practical Text-Book of
Design and Workmanship

by

MRS. ARCHIBALD H. CHRISTIE

With Drawings by the Author and Other Illustrations

Second Edition Revised
(A reprint of the First Edition, with various slight alterations in
text)

Third Edition Revised
(A reprint of the Second Edition)

Published by John Hogg
13 Paternoster Row
London 1912

[Illustration: _Frontispiece See page 249._]

Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh

EDITOR'S PREFACE

Needlework, which is still practised traditionally in every house, was
once a splendid art, an art in which English workers were especially
famous, so that, early in the XIIIth century, vestments embroidered in
England were eagerly accepted in Rome, and the kind of work wrought here
was known over Europe as "English Work." Embroideries _facon
d'Angleterre_ often occupy the first plac