Victorian Embroidery

by Barbara Morris

In this richly comprehensive work, covering the whole field of Victorian domestic and church embroidery, Barbara Morris describes and illustrates some familiar and many more unfamiliar styles and techniques. A separate chapter is devoted to embroidery in America; indigenous styles, American nomenclature, and the designs of the decorative societies organized by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Mrs Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, Mrs Potter Palmer and especially...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876631243
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Universe Books, Inc.
• Length: 238 Pages