Needlework as art
Needlework as Art, a London book of 1886 by Marianna Alford, Viscountess Alford, written for embroiderers and decorative-arts readers. The single picture is a dark, rotated photographic plate of a medieval-style embroidered panel with arched canopies and figures in groups. A designer might take its dense arch-and-figure layout as a model for framing scenes within pointed architectural borders.
