Needlework As Art

Through the preceding chapters I have tried to moderate my predominant interest in our national school of needlework, seeking to place it in its just position alongside of the c...

Stitches in needlework correspond to the touches of the pencil or brush in drawing or painting, or to the strokes of the chisel in sculpture. The needle is the one implement of...

"And now as I turn these volumes over, And see what lies between cover and cover, What treasures of art these pages hold, All ablaze with crimson and gold.... Yes, I might almos...

This is too true to be disputed, but in the art of embroidery it opens out such endless avenues, through such vast regions of technical study, that we must acknowledge the diffi...

In venturing to approach so great a subject as the history of style, I would beg my readers to believe how well I am aware that on each point much more has been already carefull...

In the last chapter on design I have described patterns as the examples or illustrations of the art of decoration, and as being the records of the motives which produced them in...

_Praxinoè._ Ye gods! What artists work'd these pictures in? What kind of painter could these clear lines limn? How true they stand! nay, lifelike, moving ever; Not worked--_crea...

The most important works that have been executed in embroidery, have been hangings or carpets. We may look upon these as belonging to the history of the past. Never again will s...

It is my intention to confine myself to the discussion of colour, in as far as it belongs to the dyes of textiles and the materials for embroidery. I will adhere as closely as I...

First glimpse of art in England--Dyeing and weaving in Britain in early times--Cæsar's invasion--Roman civilization--Anglo-Saxon times and art--Adhelme's poem--Icelandic Sagas--...

"Jane, I hate æsthetic carpets; High-art curtains make me swear. Pray cease hunting for the latest Queen Anne chair. I care nothing for improvements, On the simple style of Snel...

"Whatever clothing she displays, From Tyre or Cos, that clothing praise; If gold show forth the artist's skill, Call her than gold more precious still; Or if she choose a coarse...

Lo! how Minerva, recklessly defied, Struck down the maiden of artistic pride, Who, all distraught with terror and despair, Suspended her lithe body in mid-air; Deeming, if thus...

she leaves as part of the furnishings of her bed "of gold of swan," two pairs of sheets of Raine (Rennes), and a pair of fustian. Anne Boleyn's list of clothes contains "Bokeram...

[263] The Crusaders carried away splendid booty from the towns they took and ransacked. As it was the great gathering-place of all Eastern and Western nations, Jerusalem was a m...

[467] "Marco Polo," p. 92, ed. Yule, speaking of the ladies of Caramania in the thirteenth century, says they produced exquisite needlework on silk stuffs of divers colours, wit...

Stitches--Part I.: The needle--Gammer Gurton's needle--Art of needlework--Lists of stitches--Part II.: Plain work-- The seam--Mrs. Floyer--White embroidery--Nuns' work-- Greek--...

Christian art--Dark ages--Greek and Roman ecclesiastical dress--Northern influence--Continuity of ecclesiastical art--Authorities--Anglo-Saxon orthodox colours--Veils of the Tem...

Raw materials--Revelations of the microscope--Hemp--Jute-- Honduras grass--Spartum--Pinna silk--Hair--Leather-- Feathers--Asbestos--Coral--Pearls--Beads--Wool--Classical notices...

Definition of style--Development of style--Primitive-- Archaic--Egyptian--Babylonian--Phœnician influences on early Greek style--Decoration of hangings of the Tabernacle in the...

Ancestry of patterns--Classification--Their historical value--Primitive patterns--The wave--Tartan--Prehistoric African patterns--The naturalistic--Flowers--Shells--Indian forms...

Classical hangings--Babylonian and Persian--Semper's theory--Sanctuary in the wilderness--St. Peter's at Rome--Abulfeda--Akbar's tent--Nadir Shah's tent--Tent of Khan of Persia-...

Artist and artisan--Prehistoric design--Naturalistic design--Egyptian immutability--Slow evolution of design--Greek perfection--Necessity of following rules--M. Blanc's laws of...