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NEEDLEWORK AS ART
BY
LADY M. ALFORD
Floral decoration
London:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, AND RIVINGTON,
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET.
1886.
[All rights reserved.]
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LONDON:
PRINTED BY GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, LIMITED,
ST. JOHN’S SQUARE.
Penelope at her loom, reproached by her son
Telemachus
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TELEMACHUS PENELOPE
DEDICATED BY PERMISSION
TO
THE QUEEN.
TO
THE QUEEN.
Your
Majesty’s
most
gracious
acceptance of the Dedication of my
book on “Needlework as Art” casts a
light upon the subject that shows its
worthiness, and my inability to do it
justice. Still, I hope I may fill a gap
in the artistic literature of our day,
and I venture to lay my work at your
Majesty’s feet with loyal devotion.
MARIAN M. ALFORD.
PREFACE.
In the Preface to the “Handbook of Art Needlework,” which I edited for the Royal School at South Kensington in 1880, I undertook to write a second part, to be devoted to design, colour, and the commonsense modes of treating decorative art, as applied especially to embroidered hangings, furniture, dress, and the smaller objects of luxury.
Circumstances have, since then, obliged me to reconsider this intention; and I have found it more practicable to cast the information which I have collected from Eastern and Western sources into the form of a separate work, which in no way supersedes or interferes
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