Title: An embroidery book
Author: Anne Knox Arthur
Release date: January 6, 2023 [eBook #69723]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024
Language: English
Original publication: United Kingdom: A. & C. Black, Ltd, 1920
Credits: Alan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN, ASSYRIAN,
AND PERSIAN COSTUMES AND
DECORATIONS.
By Mary G. Houston and Florence S. Hornblower.
Containing 25 full-page illustrations, sixteen of them in colour, and 60 line diagrams in the text.
Small crown quarto.
In this volume the history of Costume is traced from the earliest ages. The illustrations (which are taken chiefly from the British Museum) are given in facsimile from the drawings of the artists of the period, and, where the drawing is too primitive to be easily understood, a garment is also shown drawn in modern style; in addition, every type of garment illustrated is accompanied by a flat pattern showing the cut. Information of this special character on Ancient Costume is usually very difficult to obtain, and it is anticipated that the volume will be of first-rate importance to dress designers, to theatrical designers, and also to the schools in which historical costume and the history of the progress of the human race are subjects for study.
Published by A. & C. BLACK, Ltd., 4, 5 & 6, Soho
Square, London, W. 1.
AGENTS
| America | The Macmillan Company 64 & 66 Fifth Avenue, New York |
| Australasia | Oxford University Press 205, Flinders Lane, Melbourne |
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PLATE I.
A TABLE MAT. (See page 41.)
AN
EMBROIDERY
BOOK
BY
ANNE KNOX ARTHUR
GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART
CONTAINING SIXTEEN FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
—EIGHT OF THEM IN COLOUR—AND EIGHTY-
SEVEN LINE ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT
A. & C. BLACK, LTD.
4, 5 & 6, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. 1.
1920
“Go, little booke; God send thee good passage”
TO
MY MOTHER
NOTE
The Author’s thanks are due to the owners of the pieces of embroidery illustrated in this book who kindly lent them to her for reproduction:—Miss Beatrice Brooks, Miss Marion Boyd, Miss Janetta S. Gillespie, Miss Mary A. Gill, Miss Martha Stevenson, Miss Elspeth Stewart, Miss Jessie Gibson (students of the Glasgow School of Art); also to Miss Kay, Parkhurst, Cedars, Derby, for the loan of three pieces worked by her pupils.