Embroidery; or, The craft of the needle
A 1899 London book on embroidery by W. G. Paulson Townsend, published by Truslove, Hanson & Comba, aimed at needleworkers and students of the craft. Its plates reproduce historical embroidered and woven ornament, including Spanish orphrey bands, a Persian 16th-century panel of flowers and birds, and diagrams of stitch placement with numbered needle directions. A designer can take from them dense, interlaced scroll borders, symmetrical floral panels, and the stitch-diagram method of showing direction.
