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    Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries Second Edition
    Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries Second Edition
    Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries Second Edition
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    Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries Second Edition

    By Marcus Bourne Huish

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    LanguageEnglish
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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Es un libro donde conocer la evolución e historia del bordado inglés. Complementado el texto con una gran cantidad de fotografías en blanco y negro (la mayoría) que analizan o ejemplifican los motivos. Es ideal para profundizar o inspirarse en el bordado de antaño, recrear motivos o descubrir diseños. No es un libro para principiantes.

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    Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries Second Edition - Marcus Bourne Huish

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    Title: Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries

    Second Edition

    Author: Marcus Bourne Huish

    Release Date: December 27, 2012 [eBook #41717]

    Language: English

    Character set encoding: UTF-8

    ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SAMPLERS AND TAPESTRY EMBROIDERIES***

    E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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    from page images generously made available by

    Internet Archive

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    SAMPLERS AND

    TAPESTRY EMBROIDERIES

    Larger Image

    Plate I.—Tapestry Embroidery. Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth.

    The Corporation of Maidstone.

    (Frontispiece.)

    The very unusual piece of Embroidery reproduced as our Frontispiece may date from the Accession of Queen Elizabeth, in which case it is the earliest specimen of an embroidery picture that we have seen. It would appear to be the creation of some exultant Protestant rejoicing at the restoration of his religion, which to him is Good tidings of great joy; for his Queen holds the Bible open at this verse, and is ready to defend it with her sword. Edward VI. also upholds the Bible in his upraised hand, whilst Henry VIII. has one foot on the downtrodden Pope, and the other on his crown, which he has kicked from his head. Popery is portrayed in Mary with her Rosary and Papal-crowned Dragon. The presence of the Thistle raises a doubt as to its being of the Elizabethan age, but although this flower consorts with the Rose it also does so with a pansy, which deprives it of its value as an emblem of Scotland. The piece belongs to the Corporation of Maidstone.

    SAMPLERS & TAPESTRY

    EMBROIDERIES

    BY

    MARCUS B. HUISH, LL.B.

    Author of Japan and its Art, Greek Terra Cotta Statuettes

    The American Pilgrim’s Way, &c.

    SECOND EDITION

    WITH 24 COLOURED PLATES AND

    77 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

    LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

    39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON

    NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA

    1913

    All rights reserved

    Preface to the Second Edition

    I have explained, in the chapter upon English Needlework with which this volume opens, the reasons which prompted me to take up the subject of Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries, and I have here only to thank the many who, since its first issue, have expressed their acknowledgment of the pleasure they have derived from it, and to record my gratification that it has induced some of them to start the study and collection of these interesting objects.

    In the present edition several American Samplers of considerable interest, kindly furnished by correspondents in that country, are noted and illustrated.

    I am indebted to the publishers for putting the present volume on the market at a more popular price than the expense of the first edition permitted.

    Contents

    List of Colour Plates

    Illustrations in Text

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    Fig. 1.—The Visit to the Boarding School. By George Morland.

    Wallace Collection.

    Fig. 2.—Bottom of Sampler, in Knitted Yellow Silk, by Mary Caney, 1710.

    Mrs C. J. Longman.

    English Needlework

    Amongst all the Minor Arts practised by our ancestresses, there was certainly no one which was so much the fashion, or in which a higher grade of proficiency was attained, as that of needlework. It was in vogue in the castle and the cottage, in the ladies’ seminary and the dame’s school, and a girl’s education began and ended with endeavours to attain perfection in it. Amongst the earliest objects to be shown to a mother visiting her daughter at school was, as is seen in the charming picture by Morland in the Wallace Collection (Fig. 1), the sampler which the young pupil had worked.[1] These early tasks were, very certainly in the majority of instances, little cared for by the schoolgirls who produced them, but being cherished by fond parents they came in after years to be looked upon with an affectionate eye by those who had made them, and to be preserved and even handed down as heirlooms in the family.

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