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Needlework as art

Alford, Marianna Margaret Compton Cust, viscountess, 1817-1888 · 1886 · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington · 1 picture

Needlework as Art, a London book of 1886 by Marianna Alford, Viscountess Alford, written for embroiderers and decorative-arts readers. The single picture is a dark, rotated photographic plate of a medieval-style embroidered panel with arched canopies and figures in groups. A designer might take its dense arch-and-figure layout as a model for framing scenes within pointed architectural borders.

Needlework · Embroidery · Decoration and ornament

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