Samplers & tapestry embroideries
Samplers & tapestry embroideries is a 1913 book by Marcus Bourne Huish, published in London and New York by Longmans, Green and Co., covering English embroidery and samplers for collectors and students of needlework. The pictures show a sampler with an alphabet band, a house, and figures over a lettered verse, a circular embroidered roundel of two figures with birds and foliage, and a drawn-work sampler with geometric lacework and a numeral row. A designer might take from them the dense band-and-border layouts, stylised figures, and geometric lace patterning typical of early English needlework.
