Royal School of Needlework Embroidery Techniques (In Stock!)

This volume is subtitled "History of Style and Technique". A comprehensive history with a worldview and broad, human implications. To study embroidery in this manner takes one into many periods of social history since embroidery is one of humankindŐs oldest skills. In this well researched resource, the author provides a synopsis of opinions by textile scholars whose views may contradict one another, sometimes offering the reader the luxury of forming her or his own conjecture. Amazing examples of royalrobes, traditional samplers, furniture, crewelwork bedhangings and silk coverlets, church vestments & costumes. Contemporary work sits comfortably next to ancient examples. A fabulous resource!