Encyclopedia of needlework
Encyclopedia of needlework is a late nineteenth-century instruction manual by Thérèse de Dillmont, printed in Mulhouse, Alsace, in 1890 for embroiderers, lacemakers and home needleworkers. Its pictures are black-and-white line engravings of technical diagrams: rope-like cord tassels set against a woven grid, a lace-edged rectangular panel, a pattern drawn over a canvas-like weave, and knotted macramé fringes labelled with letters, which a designer might borrow for textile-based patterns or diagram styling.
