Chats on Old Lace and Needlework
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Chapter 39 EMBROIDERED BOOKS AND BLACK WORK

Style and symbolism-Specimen in British Museum and Bodleian Libraries-"Black work"

Among the many dainty examples of Tudor and Stuart needlework are to be found the exquisitely embroidered book-covers which date from Queen Elizabeth's girlhood until the time of Charles II. They were always of diminutive size, and many stitches diversify their co

            
            

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