Art needlework
Art Needlework is an 1891 Philadelphia instruction manual on embroidery, knitting and crocheting, published by MacCalla & Co. for hobbyist needleworkers and drawn from a Brainerd & Armstrong catalogue. Its pictures are black-and-white stitch diagrams: a dark-ground border stitch, a woven ground with needle and thread, a gobelin stitch block, and a rosette of leaf-shaped petals beside a numbered stitch sequence. Designers can take from them the clean, schematic line-and-tone technique of late nineteenth-century instructional illustration.
