In this richly comprehensive work, covering the whole field of Victorian domestic and church embroidery, Barbara Morris describes and illustrates some familiar and many more unfamiliar styles and techniques. A separate chapter is devoted to embroidery in America; indigenous styles, American nomenclature, and the designs of the decorative societies organized by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Mrs Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, Mrs Potter Palmer and especially Mrs Candace Thurber Wheeler.
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