Chapter 47 PICTORIAL NEEDLEWORK OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

The "painted faces" period-Method of production-Revival of Scriptural "motifs"-Modern fakes-Black silk and hair copies of engravings.

An immense number of pictures must have been worked during the eighteenth century. Almost, we might say, no English home is without an example. Much of the work is intensely bad, and only that Time has tenderly so