LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER AND CO. LTD.
BROADWAY HOUSE, CARTER LANE, E.C.
1912

CONTENTS

[Introductory History by A. F. Morris Hands.]
[Op. I] Tudor Work.
[Op. II] Early 17th Century.
[Op. III] Details of Blue Crewel Work (the late Lady Maria Ponsonby's).
[Op. IV] The uses of Stem Stitch and other characteristics.
[Op. V] Bed Hangings at Hardwicke Hall.
[Op. Va] Groups of Fillings in which darning plays important part.
[Op. VI] Bed Hanging from Powis Castle.
[Op. VII] Characteristic Foliations and Late 17th Century Fillings.
[Op. VIII] Solid Crewel Work 18th Century including the Terra Firma and different birds and beasts.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Plate
[1]Strip of Tudor Work.
[2]Group of leaves on cushions at Knole Park.
[2a]Group of light details in early examples.
[3]Details from old example, carried out in dark blues, belonged to the late Lady Maria Ponsonby.
[4]Ditto.
[5]Ditto.
[6]Ditto.
[7]Detail of Foxglove design.
[8]Colour plate—Detail from old Bed Hangings, dated 1696.
[9]Detail from old Bed Hangings, dated 1696.
[10]Large heavy leaf in work dated 1696.
[10a]Leaf showing seven different stitches.
[11]Bed Hanging at Hardwicke.
[12]Set of details (in colour) of Hardwicke design.
[13]Set of details of Hardwicke design.
[14]Group of Fillings.
[15]Design of Bed Hangings at Powis Castle.
[16]Characteristic leaf of best period.
[17]Ditto.
[18]Late 17th Century Fillings.
[19]Fillings from Georgian copy of old example.
[20]Stem of leaf in Solid work (colour plate).
[21]Examples of different leaves.
[22]Ditto.
[23]Colour plate—Terra Firma.
[24]Birds and Beasts characteristic of Jacobean design.
[25]Ditto.
[26]Ditto.
[27]Ditto.

INTRODUCTION

TO redeem the monotony of plain surfaces has ever been the aim of all the arts, but especially that of the needle, which being the oldest expression of decorative intention, has, from the earliest time, been very dependent on its groundwork for its ultimate results. This is particularly the case in embroideries of the type of what is commonly known as Jacobean, where the ground fabric is extensively visible, as it is also in that wondrous achievement, the Bayeux tapestry worked in coarse wools upon homespun linen and therefore quite miscalled "tapestry."