c1900 Encyclopedia of Needlework

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Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

New, revised and enlarged edition. The D.M.C. Library series, this edition published in English, French, Italian, Spanish, and German. Illustrated with thirteen coloured plates illustrating the various patterns, and numerous in-text figures. Collated, complete. A comprehensive and authoritative guide to needlework by Therese de Dillmont, Austrian needle-worker and writer. Dillmont owned various shops in European capitals and was one of the most relevant pioneer in the international and multicultural enterprise of hobby needlework in the late nineteenth century. She wrote this guide to the pastime which sums her knowledge and experience in the practice, with precise directions and instructions. Publisher's advertisements to the rear.