Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning due to age. Some wear on dustcover. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Mr Wingfield Digby’s book the first to be devoted to the subject deals with the work both of the embroideress busy at home with a high degree of skill- on articles of costume and furnishing and of e professional craftsman and considers how it is possible to distin- guish between them. He not only illustrates and reviews some of the finest and best-documented pieces which have come down to us but also draws upon contemporary records inventories and portraits in order to give a clear picture of how they were intended. to be used and seen. Design sources are discussed and related to the new interest in gardens and flowers and the several Herbals published in the period also to the language of emblems. Of special interest is his account of the co-operation of two noble needle- women Mary Queen of Scots and Bess of Hardwick Countess of Shrewsbury. His study of individual existing pieces ranges over collections in the United States as well as in Britain and will be invaluable to students of the subject while the general reader will find Elizabethan Embroidery helpful Snce in