Church Embroidery: Ancient And Modern
A Victorian needlework manual on church embroidery, written by Mrs. Anastasia Marice Dolby and published in London by Chapman and Hall in 1867, aimed at those making ecclesiastical vestments and altar cloths. Its plates are plain black line drawings of frontals with Gothic-revival scrollwork, pulpit and desk hangings, and church plate such as chalices and a monstrance, offering designers medieval-derived ornamental motifs, quatrefoil frames, and symmetrical foliate borders to adapt.
