Needlework as art
Needlework as Art, published in London in 1886 by Viscountess Alford (Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, 1817-1888) for a readership interested in embroidery as a fine art, drawn from the Getty Research Institute's copy. The plates show embroidered and woven designs from many periods and regions, including a coronation mantle, a border of interlaced knotwork, a Principalities embroidery with vine and tree motifs, and Egyptian tapestry details. A designer might take the repeating geometric borders, interlace bands and stylised vine and tree forms as ready structures for pattern work.
