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The History of Needlework Tools and Accessories
Author(s): Groves, Sylvia
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Volume Condition: | Very Good |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | Good |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
| Impression: | 2nd Impression |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Country Life Books |
| Publication Year: | 1968 |
| Publication Place: | UK |
| Book ID: | 000782 |
| Catalogue(s): | Arts and Crafts |
136pp. Illustrated. Deep red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust jacket. The jacket is a little discoloured with age and is creased along inside flap. Volume itself has no significant flaws. a most unusual book - the first of its kind - to examine the history and development of needlework tools and their place in social history.
Keywords:
needlework
embroidery
social history
needles
thread
thimbles
pins
pin cushion
chatelains
work-boxes
tambouring
crochet
braid
mat-weaving
parfilage