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Jacobean Embroidery

Fitzwilliam and Hands, 1912

Jacobean Embroidery

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Jacobean Embroidery: Its Forms and Fillings, by Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam and A. F. Morris Hands (1912)
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By Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam and A. F. Morris Hands. Published in London by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company in 1912.

Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam and A. F. Morris Hands published Jacobean Embroidery: Its Forms and Fillings, Including Late Tudor in 1912. After a short history of English crewelwork, the book gives drawings of leaves, flowers, birds and fillings sketched from old bed hangings and cushions at Knole, Hardwick Hall and Powis Castle, with notes on how each was worked.

The whole book is here, in 2 parts, with 29 of its pictures.

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, Trübner and Co. Ltd. Broadway House, Carter Lane, E.c. 1912

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PRINTED BY W. W. CURTIS LTD., CHEYLESMORE PRESS, COVENTRY

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  1. Introductory History
  2. The Plates: Forms and Fillings