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This beautiful book will be of particular interest not only to collectors and students of American decorative arts but also to embroiderers of today who will find a wealth of designs both simple and sophisticated which can be adapted to contemporary use. Embroidery, mainly in the English tradition, was wide spread in the American colonies from earliest times and many charming pieces survive. Eastern Pennsylvania is unusually rich in examples of 18th and 19th century needlework, not only in the number preserved but also in their variety. The Quakers, the Moravians and the Pennsylvania "Dutch" each had their traditional styles, stiches, decorative motifs and colors. Since Pennsylvania was one of the first colonies to have schools for girls, and embroidery, both useful and ornamental, was generally part of the curriculum, many pieces have been preserved in still existing schools, notably that at Westtown, as well as by the descendants of the girls who worked them. Of the more than a hundred examples described and illustrated in this book, almost half are samplers, which include some unusual darning and drawn-work samplers as well as the more familiar cross-stitch type. Other pieces show crewel embroidery, silk embroidered pictures, Florentine stitch embroidery, and the canvas and Berlin work of the mid-19th century.

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  • PublisherScribners
  • Publication date1968
  • ISBN 10 1199092118
  • ISBN 13 9781199092113
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages160
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