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Title: Jacobean Embroidery
Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor

Author: Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam and A. F. Morris Hands

Release Date: August 2, 2006 [eBook #18971]

Language: English

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JACOBEAN EMBROIDERY

Its Forms and Fillings
Including Late Tudor

by

ADA WENTWORTH FITZWILLIAM and A. F. MORRIS HANDS

Publishers' Note.

Plates 1, l0a, 11, 12 (part of), 20 and 23 have already been published
in "Needlecraft Monthly Magazine" and are included in this collection by
permission of the Editor.

London Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner and Co. Ltd.
Broadway House, Carter Lane, E.C.
1912

CONTENTS

Introductory History by A. F. Morris Hands.

Op. I Tudor Work.

Op. II Early 17th Century.

Op. III Details of Blue Crewel Work (the late Lady Maria Ponsonby's).

Op. IV The uses of Stem Stitch and other characteristics.

Op. V Bed Hangings at Hardwicke Hall.

Op. Va Groups of Fillings in which darning plays important part.

Op. VI Bed Hanging from Powis Castle.

Op. VII Characteristic Foliations and Late 17th Century Fillings.

Op. VIII Solid Crewel Work 18th Century including the _Terra Firma_ and
different birds and beasts.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Plate

1 Strip of Tudor Work.

2 Group of leaves on cushions at Knole Park.

2a Group of light details in early examples.

3 Details from old example, carried out in dark blues, belonged to the
late Lady Maria Ponsonby.

4 Ditto.

5 Ditto.