Church Embroidery, Ancient And Modern…

The want at the present day of a practical treatise on Church Embroidery is so manifest that it would be superfluous to make any apology to the public for offering, in the following pages, the result of several years' personal experience in the various branches of high-class needlework.The beautiful art of Church Embroidery is so mysterious and perplexing to the novice, and so simple and fascinating when understood,so every reader of these instructions, may become proficient, if only for the lasting delight the knowledge will assuredly confer.

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Copyright

PREFACE

CONTENTS

I.INTRODUCTION

II.THE HOLY ALTAR, AND ITS ADORNMENT.

III.EIGHT ALTARS ILLUSTRATED AND DESCRIBED FOR DIFFERENT KINDS OF NEEDLEWORK--DIRECTIONS FOR EXECUTING COLOURED FRONTISPIECE OF HANGING FOR FEASTS OF OUR LORD

IV.SUPER-FRONTALS--ORNAMENTAL CROSSES FOR FRONTALS.

V.MONOGRAMS (VARIOUS)--POWDERINGS--PULPIT AND DESK-HANGINGS.

VI.SERMON-CASES--BAND-CASES--BOOK-COVERS--ALMS-BAGS--ALMS DISH-MATS--CHURCH BOOK-MARKERS.

VII.CHURCH LINEN--ALTAR AND OTHER CLOTHS--POUNCING AND DRAWING PATTERNS ON LINEN FOR ANCIENT EMBROIDERT--HOW TO PREPARE DESIGNS ON CARDBOARD FOR MODERN CHURCH EMBROIDERY

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