Art in Needlework
By Lewis F. Day and Mary Buckle. Published in London by B. T. Batsford in 1900.
Lewis F. Day was one of the leading English designers of the Arts and Crafts movement, and Mary Buckle worked the embroidered samplers that illustrate the book. Art in Needlework, first published in 1900, explains each family of stitches, from canvas and crewel stitch to couched gold and raised work, and then turns to outline, shading, figure work, church work and design.
The whole book is here, in 31 parts, with 111 of its pictures.
LONDON: B. T. BATSFORD 94 HIGH HOLBORN 1900
BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO. LD., PRINTERS, LONDON AND TONBRIDGE.
Reprinted from Art in Needlework: A Book about Embroidery, by Lewis F. Day and Mary Buckle (1900). Free for personal use. Please share a link rather than copying this page.
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- Preface
- Embroidery and Stitching
- Canvas Stitches
- Crewel-Stitch
- Chain-Stitch
- Herring-Bone Stitch
- Buttonhole-Stitch
- Feather and Oriental Stitches
- Rope and Knot Stitches
- Interlacings, Surface Stitches, and Diapers
- Satin-Stitch and Its Offshoots
- Darning
- Laid-Work
- Couching
- Couched Gold
- Appliqué
- Inlay, Mosaic, Cut-Work
- Embroidery in Relief
- Raised Gold
- Quilting
- Stitch Groups
- One Stitch, or Many?
- Outline
- Shading
- Figure Embroidery
- The Direction of the Stitch
- Church Work
- A Plea for Simplicity
- Embroidery Design
- Embroidery Materials
- A Word to the Worker