Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving, by Grace Christie This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Author: Grace Christie Release Date: January 16, 2007 [eBook #20386] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EMBROIDERY AND TAPESTRY WEAVING*** E-text prepared by Susan Skinner and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/c/) "Flowers, Plants and Fishes, Birds, Beasts, Flyes, and Bees, Hils, Dales, Plaines, Pastures, Skies, Seas, Rivers, Trees, There's nothing neere at hand, or farthest sought, But with the needle may be shap'd and wrought." —John Taylor ("The Praise of the Needle"). SECOND EDITION REVISED (A reprint of the First Edition, with various slight alterations in text) THIRD EDITION REVISED (A reprint of the Second Edition) THE ARTISTIC CRAFTS SERIES OF TECHNICAL HANDBOOKS EDITED BY W. R. LETHABY EMBROIDERY AND TAPESTRY WEAVING EMBROIDERY AND TAPESTRY WEAVING A PRACTICAL TEXT-BOOK OF DESIGN AND WORKMANSHIP BY MRS. ARCHIBALD H. CHRISTIE WITH DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS PUBLISHED BY JOHN HOGG 13 PATERNOSTER ROW LONDON 1912 Frontispiece See page 249. Frontispiece See page 249.