Embroidery

Last Updated 9/22/2002

Anglo-Saxon Embroidery Techniques
Celtic Alphabet
L'Age D'Or Baroque Embroidery Picture Gallery
Stefan's Florilegium: On the making and giving of favors
Viking Embroidery Stitches and Motifs
Class handouts - Lady Carllein would be glad to send to anyone who will send a SASE:
- "Counted Thread Embroidery in Period: an unsystematic overview"
- "Reversible Blackwork Embroidery"
Send a SASE, and she will send you my teaching packet on counted work in period:.
Carol M. Thomas
1642 Stafford Rd.
Storrs, CT 06268

Bath, Viginia Churchill. Embroidery Masterworks. Henry Regnery Co.
Beck, Thomasina. 1996. The Embroiderer's Story : Needlework from the Renaissance to the Present Day. David & Charles Uk.
Bridgeman, Harriet and Elizabeth Drury, eds. 1978. Needlework, An Illustrated History. Paddington Press.
Cennini. 1978. Craftsman's Handbook (Il Libro dell' Arte).
O'Steen, Darlene. 1996. Proper Stitch: A Guide for Counted Thread. Leisure Arts. ISBN 0932437036.
Panye, Blanche. 1992. The History of Costume: From Ancient Mesopotasmia Through the Twentieth Century. Harpercollins College Div. ISBN 0060471417.
Schuette, Marie, and Mu"ller-Christensen, Sigrid. A Pictorial History of Embroidery.
Staniland, Kay. 1991. Embroiderers (Medieval Craftsmen). University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0802069150.
Warner, Pamela. 1991. Embroidery, A History. ISBN 0713461063.
Wilson, Erica. 1985. Erica Wilson's Embroidery Book. Scribner. ISBN 0684163187.

Christie, Mrs. Archibald H. 1938. English Medieval Embroidery. (Available by ILL from the University of Iowa, Aimes, Iowa.)
Kateryn de Develyn. RE: Welsh Embroidered Coverletts - long response. SCA-ARTS 7/29/97.
King, Donald, and Santina Levey. 1993. Embroidery in Britain from 1200 to 1750: The Victoria & Albert Museum's Textile Collection. Abbeville Press, Inc. ISBN 1558596526.
Remington. English Domestic Needlework.
Snook, Barbara. 1975. English Embroidery.
Wardle, Patricia. Guide to English Embroidery.
Wingfield-Digby, George. Elizabethan Embroidery.
Winter, Janet, and Carol Savoy. Elizabethan Costuming for the years 1550-1580. Other Times Publications, 361 60th Street, Dept. T, Oakland, CA 94618.

Gostelow, Mary. 1980. Embroidery of All Russia.
Halpern, Frieda. 1976. Full-Color Russian Folk Needlepoint Designs : Charted for Easy Use. Dover.
Maeiiasova, Natalieiia Andreevna. 1971. La Broderie Russe Ancienne (Drevnerrusskoe Shit'e). Izd. Iskusstvo, Moscow.
Stasov, V. 1976. Russian Peasant Design Motifs for Needleworkers and Craftsmen. Dover.

Barber, E. J. W. 1993. Prehistoric Textiles : The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages : With Special Reference to the Aegean. Princeton university Press.
Bundy, M. and Tweddle, D. "The early medieval textiles at Maaseik, Belgium." Antiqities Journal 65:353-389.
Bundy, M., and Tweddle, D. "The Maaseik embroideries." Anglo Saxon England 13:65-95.
Geijir, Agnes. 1983. "Textile Finds from Birka." pp. 80-99 in Cloth and Clothing in Medieval Europe: Essays in Memory of Professor E. M. Carus-Wilson (Pasold Studies in Textile History, 2), E. M. Carus-Wilson, K. G. Ponting, N. B. Harte (eds.). London: Heinemann.
Iversen, Mette, ed. Mammen: Grav, kunst og samfund i vikingetid (Grave, art and society in the viking age). Jysk Arkaeologisk selskab in conjunction wiht Aarhus Universitetsforlag.
Margeson, Susan M. 1994. Viking (Eyewitness Books). New York: Alfred Knopf.
Nockert, Margareta. 1983. "A Scandinavian Haberget?" pp. 100-107 in Cloth and Clothing in Medieval Europe: Essays in Memory of Professor E. M. Carus-Wilson (Pasold Studies in Textile History, 2), E. M. Carus-Wilson, K. G. Ponting, N. B. Harte (eds.). London: Heinemann.

Gonul, Macide. 1969. "Some Turkish Embroideries in the Collection of the Topkapi Sarayi Museum in Istanbul." Pp.43-76 in Kunst Des Orients Section VI.
Johnstone, Pauline. 1986. Turkish Embroidery.
Rogers, J. M. and R. M. Ward. 1988. Suleyman the Magnificent. Tabard Press, New York. ISBN 0-9144-2730-X.
Taylor, Roderick. Ottoman Embroidery.

Arthur, Liz. 1995. Embroidery 1600-1700 : At the Burrell Collection.
Atasoy, Nurhan. Splendors of the Ottoman Sultans. Memphis: Wonders. Exhibition Catalog.
Campbell, Etta. 1990. Linen Embroidery.
Cave, Oenone. Cutwork Embroidery and How to do It.
Clabburn, Pamela. 1983. Samplers. Shire Publications.
Colby, Averil. Quilting. Scribner. ISBN 0684100797.
Epstein, Kathleen

Friedman, Jane M. 1997. "These Stitches Speak." Aramco World 48 (2, March-April):2-11.
Fry, Mary. 1978. Mary Fry's Pulled Thread Workbook.
Harding, Valerie. 1979. Faces and Figures in Embroidery. Charles T Branford. ISBN 0823142574.
International Exhibition Foundation. 1985. Portugal and the East Through Embroidery. Charles E Tuttle Co. ISBN 0883970384.
Jones, Mary Eirwen. A History of Western Embroidery.
Liddle, Jill and Watanabe, Yuko. 1988. Japanese Quilts. E P Dutton. ISBN 0525483861.
Montclare. Patterns from Seventeenth & Eighteenth Century Spanish Samplers.
Newton, Stella Mary. 1980. Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0847669394.
Parsons, Thomas. 1994. Designer's Guide to Scandinavian Patterns. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.
Salazar, Kim Brody. 1995. The New Carolingian Modelbook : Counted Embroidery Patterns from Before 1600. Outlaw Press.
Sigerus, Emil. 1976. Charted Peasant Designs from Saxon Transylvania.
Sharptooth, Thora. "Women's Garb in Northern Europe." Compleat Anachronist #59.
Visser. Merklappen uit de lage landen.
Wark, Edna. Metal Thread Embroidery.

Brief Guide to Persian Embroideries by the staff of the Victoria and Albert Museum. His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1950.
Paintings in the Ufizi & Pitti Galleries. 1994.