Embroidered Textiles: Traditional Patterns from Five Continents with a Worldwide Guide to Identification

by Sheila Paine

Book Overview

Embroidery has been practiced for thousands of years, and the variety is astonishing: gold-embroidered Chinese court insignia, landscape-worked Japanese kimonos, Sumatran sarongs, Indian saris, Afghan... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500278237
• ISBN13: 9780500278239
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.9" x 9.5"