Cathedral volunteers across the country are collaborating on a project to revive the needlework skills of the opulent Opus ...

Lesage’s quote sums up embroidery’s relationship with fashion in full. With only a needle, thread, and the painstaking efforts of the human hand, the technique is intrinsic to the industry ...

English Embroidery upon an American Theme. Nov. 2, 1896 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from November 2, 1896, Page 3 Buy Reprints View on timesmachine ...

English embroidery was described as acu pictura ('painting with the needle'). We can tell from the style of many of these embroideries, including the Syon Cope, that artists, possibly manuscript ...

An English apron from the 1730s. NGV Says curator Paola Di Trocchio: "A woman sewed to demonstrate that she was cultivated and sophisticated. As a girl she would start with samplers, learning ...

English embroidery was described as acu pictura ('painting with the needle'). We can tell from the style of many of these embroideries, including the Syon Cope, that artists, possibly manuscript ...

Lisa Cook Terrace, English and New England Embroidery, Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Vol. 62, No. 328 (1964), pp. 65-80 ...

" The history of needlecraft," writes A. F. Kendrick in the introductory chapter of "English Embroidery," (in Newnes's Library of the Applied Arts. Svo, pp. 125, gilt top cloth.

Art embroidery, that market brainchild of the 19th century, is represented not just by Catherine and Henry Holiday's work for retailer Morris and Co, but by that of English-born Australian ...

VISITORS to Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum have been having a butcher’s at a collection of 17th-century English embroidery donated by a market trader.