Artistic embroidery; containing practical instructions in the ornamental branches of needlework
A late nineteenth-century American manual of ornamental needlework, written by Ella Rodman Church and published in New York in 1880, aimed at amateur embroiderers learning practical stitches. Its pictures are plain black-and-white line diagrams of embroidered fabric, including a portiere with diamond lattice and cross-stitch motifs and close darning-style grids with stitch paths traced across them, which a designer could adapt for woven or lattice patterns and textile surface texture.
