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Bibliography – Embroidery
Compiled by Mistress Clothilde von der Insel in 2009

Culture
Armenian
Kasparian, Alice Odian. Armenian Needlelace and Embroidery.
McLean, VA: EPM Publications, 1983.

Asian /Eastern
Szygenda, L. "Eastern Influences on European Textiles." Embroidery 39(3): 128-9.

Tamura, Shuji. The Techniques of Japanese Embroidery. Iola: Krause Publications, 1999.

Wace, A.J.B. Mediterranean and Near Eastern Embroideries. 2 vols. London: Halton & Co. Ltd, 1935.

Coptic
Coney, J.D. Late and Egyptian Coptic Art. Brooklyn, NY: The Brooklyn Museum, 1943.

Lewis, Suzanne. Early Coptic Textiles. Stanford: Stanford University, 1969.

Thompson, Dorothy. Coptic Textiles. Brooklyn, NY: The Brooklyn Museum, 1971.

English
Arnold, Janet. Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd.
W.S. Maney and Son LTD, 1988
ISBN 0-901286-20-6

Bradbury, Frances M. English Crewel Designs: 16th to 18th Centuries.

Stemmer House Publishers, 1982

Christie, A.G.H. English Medieval Embroidery. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1938.

Hughes, Therle. English Domestic Needlework, 1660-1860. Abbey Fine Arts, London.

Johnstone, Pauline. Three Hundred Years of English Embroidery: 1600-1900.

Wakefield Press, 1986
ISBN 0-949268-81-X

Kendrick, A.F. English Needlework. London: A & C Block, Ltd., 1933.

King, Donald, and Santina Levey. The Victoria and Albert Museum's Textile Collection:
Embroidery in Britain from 1200 to 1750. New York: Canopy Books, 1993.
ISBN 1-55859-652-6

Levey, Santina M. Elizabethan Treasures: The Hardwick Hall Textiles.

The National Trust, 1998
ISBN - 0-8109-6356-1
Harry N.Abrams, Inc., Publishers.
ISBN 0-8109-6353-1
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Nevinson, John L. Catalogue Of English Domestic Embroidery.
His Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1938.

Remington, Preston. English Domestic Needlework.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1945.

Snook, Barbara. English Embroidery.

Bell and Hyman, 1985 - ISBN 0-7135-2565-7
London: Mills & Boon, 1974 - ISBN 0-600-31752-8
London: Mills & Boon, 1974 - ISBN 0-263-05579-5

Strong, Roy. The Elizabethan Image: Painting in England, 1540 – 1620. Arno Press, New York, 1969.

Swain, Margaret. The Needlework of Mary Queen of Scots.

Carlton: Ruth Bean Publishers, 1986
Van Nostrand Reinhold Co, 1973
ISBN 0-442-29962-1

Wardle, Patricia. Guide to English Embroidery. Victoria and Albert Museum.

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1970,1981
ISBN 0-11-290030-5

Warner, Pamela. Tudor Treasures to Embroider.

Lewes (East Sussex, England): Guild of Master Craftsmen Publications, 2002.

Wingfield Digby, George Frederick. Elizabethan Embroidery.

London: Faber & Faber, 1963.
New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1963,1964.

Victoria and Albert Museum. Elizabethan Embroidery. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1948

Zimmerman, Jane. English Secular Needlework: Tudor and Stuart Periods.

Self-published. Richmond, California. 1992.

German
Bassée, Nicolas. German Renaissance Patterns for Embroidery: A facsimile copy of
Nicolas Bassée's New Modelbuch of 1568. Austin: Curious Works Press, 1994.
ISBN - 0-9633331-4-3
-A Facsimile Copy of Nicolas Bassee's New Modelbuch of 1568.
Curious Works Press, (107 RR 620 South, #11-E, Austin Texas 78734),

Klein, Dorothea. “German Embroidery, A General Historical Survey”. Embroidery.

September 1938, vol. VI, no. 4

Kroos, Renate. Niedersachsische Bildstickereien des Mittelalters.

Deutcher Verlag Fur Kunstwissenschaft, 1970.
-In German. A really good source of primary documentation for German embroidery.

Kurth, B. “Medieval Embroidery”. CIBA Review, 1945, no.50, pp. 1798-1828.

Mitchell, Timothy. “A Fifteenth Century Bag”. Tournaments Illuminated, Summer 1993, vol. 107, pp.34-36.
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Mitchell, Timothy J. (writing as Master Richard of Waymarc).
“A Stitch out of Time, 14th and 15th Century German Counted Thread Embroidery”.
The Compleat Anachronist, July 1996, vol. 86.

Newall, Kathryn. Needlework Patterns from Renaissance Germany: Designs recharted by

Kathryn Newall from Johan Sibmacher's Schön Neues Modelbuch 1597.
Boulder: Costume & Dressmaker Press, 1999.

Greek
Gentles, Margaret. Turkish and Greek Island Embroideries. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1964.

Johnstone, Pauline. A Guide to Greek Island Embroidery. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1972.

Petrakis, Joan. The Needle Arts Of Greece. Charles Scribners' Sons, Inc., NY, 1977.
Icelandic
Gudjónsson, Elsa E. Traditional Icelandic Embroidery. Reykjavík: Iceland Review, 1985.

Gudjónsson, Elsa E. Traditional Icelandic Embroidery. Kopavogur, Iceland: self-published, 2003.

ISBN – 9979-9202-6-2

Indian
Irwin, John and Margaret Hall. Indian Embroideries. India: S.R. Bastiker, 1973.

Morrell, Anne. The Techniques of Indian Embroidery. Loveland, Colo.: Interweave Press, 1995.

Macedonian
“Macedonian Folk Embroidery” –
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/foreign/macedonia/folk-embroidery/index.html

Middle Eastern/Islamic
Baker, Patricia L. Islamic Textiles. London: British Museum Press, 1995.

Ellis, Marianne. Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2001.
(Paper) ISBN - 1-85444-135-3
(Hard) ISBN - 1-85444-154-X

Russian
Asharina, Nina. Russian Decorative Art: 12th to Early 20th Century. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1987.

Gostelow, Mary. Embroidery of All Russia. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977.

ISBN - 0-684-15184-7

Manushina, T. Early Russian Embroidery in the Zagorsk Museum Collection.

Moscow: Sovietskaga Rossia Publishers, 1983.

Yefimova, L. and R. Belogorskaya. Russian Embroidery and Lace. Thames and Hudson, 1982.
ISBN - 0-500-01358-6
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Turkish
Gentles, Margaret. Turkish and Greek Island Embroideries. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1964.

Gonul, Macide. Turkish Embroideries, XVI-XIX Centuries.

Istanbul: Touring and Automobile Club of Turkey, 19??.

Gonul, Macide. “Some Turkish Embroideries in the Collection of the Topkapi Sarayi
Museum in Istanbul”, Kunstdes Orients, vol.1, no. 1, (1969): 43-76.

Johnstone, Pauline. Turkish Embroidery. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985.
King, Donald. Imperial Ottoman Textiles. London: Colnaghi, 19??.

Ramazanoglu, Gulseren. Turkish Embroidery. Ramazanoglu Publications, 1987.

ISBN - 0-442-26799-1

Von Palotay, G. “Turkish Embroidery”, Ciba Review, February 1954, no.104, pp.3658-3683.

Zaccagnino, Denise. “Sixteenth-Century Turkish Light Embroidery: Pattern Darning”,

Tournaments Illuminated, Summer 1994, #111, pp. 20-25.

Viking
Priest-Dorman, Carolyn. “Viking Embroidery Stitches and Motifs”
[Online at: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/vikembroid.html]

Technique
General
32 Embroidery Stitches. Anchor Counted Thread Stitches. J & P Coats, Ltd., 1968.

Airmid Godwin, “A Catalog of Medieval Embroidery Stitches”, The Known World Handbook, 3rd ed.
Milpitas, CA: Society for Creative Anachronism/Office of the Stock Clerk. pp.159-163.

Bath, Virginia Churchill. Embroidery Masterworks: Classic Patterns and Techniques for
Contemporary Application from the Textile Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1972.

Brown, P. The Encyclopedia of Embroidery Techniques. East Roseville NSW: Simon and Schuster, 1994.

Caulfield, SFA and BC Saward. The Dictionary of Needlework. Facsimile edition – Blaketon Hall, Ltd.,1989.
ISBN – 0-89577-059-8

Christie, M. A. Samplers and Stitches: A Handbook of the Embroiderer's Art. London: Batsford, 1985.

Clabburn, Pamela. The Needleworker's Dictionary. New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1976

Colton, Virginia, editor. Reader’s Digest Complete Guide to Needlework. Reader’s Digest Association, 1979
LCC – 78-71704
ISBN – 0-89577-509-8
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Coss, Melinda. Reader’s Digest Complete Book of Embroidery.
Pleasantville, New York/Montreal: Reader’s Digest Assoc., Inc., 1996.
ISBN 0-89577-874-2
LCC – 96-7413
TT 770.C73 1996
746.44/dc20

Dillmont, Thérèse de. The Complete Encyclopedia of Needlework.

Philadelphia: Running Press, 1972, 1978,1996.
ISBN 1-56138-702-9

Don, Sarah. Traditional Embroidered Animals.

New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 1990.
Newton Abbot: David & Charles Publishers, 1990
ISBN - 0-7153-8967-X.

Eaton, J. The Complete Stitch Encyclopedia. London: Hamlyn, 1986.

Enthoven, J. The Stitches of Creative Embroidery. West Chester: Schiffer Publishing, 1987.

Goldberg, Rhoda Ochser. The New Dictionary of Counted Thread Embroidery Stitches.
New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998
ISBN 0-517-88663-4
TT 778.665656 1998
746.44’3’03 – dc21

Gostelow, Mary. Mary Gostelow's Embroidery Book. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1979.
ISBN - 0-87690-344-8.

Gostelow, Mary, consultant editor. The Complete Guide to Needlework Techniques and Materials.
Chartwell Books, 1982.
ISBN – 0-89009-597-3

Hanson, Carol (Caryl de Trecesson ). Designs, Period. Chanson Press, MA, 1995.

John, E. Creative Stitches. New York: Dover Publications, 1967.

Nichols, M., Ed. Encyclopedia of Embroidery Stitches, including Crewel. New York: Dover, 1974.

O'Steen, Darlene. The Proper Stitch. Birmingham, AL: Symbol of Excellence Publishers, 1994.

Petersen, Grete. Stitches and Decorative Seams. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1983.
LCC – 82-20017
ISBN – 0-442-27296-0
TT 770.P48513 1983
746.44’042

Read, Susannah, editor. The Needleworker’s Constant Companion. The Viking Press, 1978.
ISBN – 0-670-50576-5 LCC – 78-16709 TT 705.N43 746.4
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Rhodes, M. Dictionary of Canvas Work Stitches. New York: Batsford 1980.

Saunders, Sally. Royal School of Needlework Embroidery Techniques. London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd., 1998.

Snook, Barbara. Embroidery Stitches. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1963.
ISBN – 0-517-025167
ISBN – 0-517-500795
LCC - 63-21112

Snook, Barbara. Embroidery Stitches. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985.
ISBN 0-312-24388-X

Swift, G. The Batsford Encyclopedia of Embroidery Techniques. London: Batsford, 1994.

Synge, Lanto. ed. The Royal School of Needlework Book of Needlework and Embroidery.
London: William Collins Sons Company, Ltd., 1986.

Thomas, Mary. Mary Thomas’ Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches. London: Trafalgar Square, 1998
ISBN - 6-57076-48-3

Thomas, Mary. Mary Thomas' Embroidery Book.

New York: Gramercy Publishing Co., 1936.
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1983.
ISBN - 0-486-24530-6 LCC – 83-5183 TT 770.T52/1983 746.44

Weldon's Encyclopedia Of Needlework. London: The Waverly Book Co., Ltd.

Wilson, Erica. Crewel Embroidery. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1962.

Wilson, Erica. Erica Wilson's Embroidery Book. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973.
ISBN 0-684-16318-7(pbk)
LCC 78-123841

Blackwork
The Blackwork Embroidery Archives - http://www.blackworkarchives.com/#Shirley

Retailer - www.blackworkstitchplus.8m.com

Retailer - www.lesley19.freeserve.co.uk

Retailer and information - http://www.skinnersisters.com/

Altherr, Ilse. Blackwork & Holbein Embroidery, self published, 1978

Altherr, Ilse. Reversible Blackwork, self published, 1978.

Arnold, Janet. Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd. W.S. Maney & Son. London. 1988.

Catesby, Prudence. “Wrought with Flowers of Black Silk” The Compleat Anachronist, #115,
Spring 2002. Society of Creative Anachronism, 2002.
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Drysdale, Rosemary. The Art of Blackwork Embroidery. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975.

Drysdale, Rosemary. “Blackwork”. Fine Lines, Winter 1999,vol.3, no.3, p.6.

Evans, Susan J. “An Introduction to Blackwork”. The Compleat Anachronist, #31.

Society of Creative Anachronism, 1987.

Geddes, Elizabeth and Moyra McNeill. Blackwork Embroidery. London: Mills and Boon Ltd., 1965.

Geddes, Elizabeth and Moyra McNeill. Blackwork Embroidery. New York: Dover Books, 1976.
ISBN - 0-4862324-5-X
LCC – 75-31285

Gostelow, Mary. Blackwork.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977.
Mineola, NY: Dover Publications Inc., 1998
ISBN - 0-486-40178-2 LCC – 98-16111 TT 778.B5/G67/1998 746.44/dc21

Hearn, Karen, editor. Dynasties: Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530-1630. Rizzoli, 1996.

Langdon, Helen. Holbein. London: Phaidon Press, 1993.

Pascoe, Margaret. Blackwork Embroidery. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1986,1995.

Robinson, Jack. Blackwork Embroidery (My Methods and Techniques)

Threadbare Embroidery Requisites, 1993

Scoular, Marion E. Why Call It Blackwork, self-published, 1993.

Salazar, Kim Brady. Blackwork. Boston: Black Rose Press, 1978.

Skinner, Linn. 100 Blackwork Charts.

Skinner, Linn. Another 100 Blackwork Charts.
Self-published, 1996, 1997; order from The Skinner Sisters. (http://www.skinnersisters.com)

Snook, Barbara. English Embroidery. Bell & Hyman. London. 1974.

Strong, Roy. The English Icon: Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture.

London: The Paul Meloon Foundation for British Art, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969.

Wilkins, Lesley. Beginner’s Guide to Blackwork. Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Search Press, 2002.
ISBN – 0-85532-937-8
www.blackworkstitchplus.8m.com
www.lesley19.freeserve.co.uk

Zimmerman, Jane. Elizabethan Blackwork. Self-published, Richmond, CA.

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Counted
Ambuter, Carolyn. The Open Canvas: An Instructional Encyclopedia of Openwork Techniques.
New York: Workman Publishing, 1982.

DMC Library. Assisi Embroideries. Mulhouse: Editions Th. de Dillmont, 1954.

Fairfield, Helen. Counted-Thread Embroidery. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.

Gostelow, M. The Cross Stitch Book. London: Batsford, 1982.

Gostelow, Mary. The Cross Stitch Book. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1982.

Harlow, Eve, compiler. The Anchor Book of Counted Thread Embroidery Stitches. David & Charles, 1997.
ISBN – 0-7153-0630-8

Langdon, Helen. Holbein. London: Phaidon Press, 1993.

O'Steen, Darlene. The Proper Stitch. Symbol of Excellence Publishers, 1994

Rhodes, Mary. Needlepoint: The art of canvas embroidery. London: Octopus Books, 1974.

Rhodes, Mary. Batsford Book of Canvas Work.

ISBN 0-7134-2669-1

Salazar, Kim Brody (writing as Ianthe d'Averoigne). The New Carolingian Modelbook:
Counted Embroidery Patterns from Before 1600. Albuquerque: Outlaw Press, 1995.
ISBN - 0-9642082-2-9

Wainwright, Angela. Medieval Cross Stitch Samplers. London: Cassell, 1995.

Wainwright, Angela. Renaissance Cross Stitch Samplers. London: Cassell, 1995.

Zaccagnino, Denise. “Sixteenth-Century Turkish Light Embroidery: Pattern Darning”,

Tournaments Illuminated, Summer 1994, #111, pp. 20-25.

Cutwork
Cave, Oenone. Cutwork Embroidery and How to Do It. Dover Publications, 1982.
ISBN - 0-486-24267-6

Drawn Fabric Embroidery (see also Pulled Thread Embroidery)

“Drawn Thread Work”. The Needle. London Guild of Needlework.

McNeill, Moyra. Drawn Thread Embroidery. Henry Holt & Co., Inc., NY, 1989
ISBN - 0-8050-1406-3 (pbk) LCC – 90-81419

Wark, Edna. Drawn Fabric Embroidery: A guide to pulled thread work. BT Batsford, Ltd., London, 1979.
ISBN – 0-7134-8803-4
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Hardanger
“Hardangen Embroidery”. Needlecraft., #47. The Manchester School of Embroidery.

Bright, Sigrid. Hardanger Embroidery: A Complete and Practical Course. Dover Publications, Inc., 1978.
ISBN – 0-486-23592-0 LCC – 77-87845
Love, Janice. Hardanger Basics and Beyond.

Love Janice. Fundamentals Made Fancy.

Meier, Susan L. and Rosalyn K. Watnemo. Advanced Charted Hardanger Embroidery. Nordic Needle.

Meier, Susan L. and Rosalyn K. Watnemo. Advanced Hardanger Embroidery. Nordic Needle.

Thoresen, Maren. The Priscilla Hardanger Book No.2 : A Collection of Typial Norwegian Designs (reprint).
Dover Publications, Inc., 1985.
ISBN – 0-486-24906-9 LCC – 85-7061 TT 787.P87 1985 746.44

Whity, Sue. The Anchor Book of Hardanger Embroidery. David & Charles, 1997

Heraldic Embroidery
“Heraldic Embroidery”. Embroidery. March 1933, vol.1, no. 2, pp.4-8.

“Stitches used in Heraldry”. Embroidery. March 1933, vol.1, no. 2, pp.12-16.

Opus Anglicanum
Cateline de la Mor, “Opus Anglicanum”, Tournaments Illuminated, Winter (1989) #93, 34-35.

Christie, A.G.I. English Medieval Embroidery. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1938.

King, Donald. Opus Anglicanum: English Medieval Embroidery. London: The Curwen Press, 1963.
-Exhibition catalog.

Pulled Thread Embroidery (see also Drawn Thread Embroidery)

Drysdale, Raymond. Pulled Work on Canvas and Linen. 1978.

Fangel, Ester, Ida Winkler and Agnete Wulden Madsen. Danish Pulled Thread Embroidery.
ISBN - 0-486-23476-6 LCC - 76-49327 746.44/F214dan

McNeill, M. Pulled Thread Embroidery. New York: Dover, 1993.

Design Sources
Foris, Andreas, and Foris, Maria. Charted Folk Designs for Cross-Stitch Embroidery: 278
charts of ancient folk embroideries from the countries along the Danube.
New York: Dover, 1975.

Gierl, Irmgard. Cross Stitch Patterns. London: Batsford, 1986.

Houck, Carter. 101 Folk Art Designs for Counted Cross-Stitch and Other Needlecrafts. New York: Dover, 1982.
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Kiewe, Heinz Edgar, ed. Charted Peasant Designs from Saxon Transylvania.
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1964, 1977.
ISBN - 0-486-23425-8 LCC – 76-24564

Newall, Kathryn. Needlework Patterns from Renaissance Germany: Designs recharted by

Kathryn Newall from Johan Sibmacher's Schön Neues Modelbuch 1597.
Boulder: Costume & Dressmaker Press, 1999.

Sibmacher, Johan. Baroque Charted Designs for Needlework Engraved by Johan Sibmacher.
(Reprint of Newes Modelbuch, 1604.) New York: Dover Publications, 1975.
ISBN - 0-486-23186-0
-This is a republication of an 1880 edition of "Newes Modelbuch.... Inn Druck verfertigt"
originally published in Nuremberg in 1604. Contains counted thread patterns.

Strong, Roy. The Elizabethan Image: Painting in England, 1540 – 1620. Arno Press, New York, 1969.

Vinciolo, Federico. Renaissance Patterns for Lace and Embroidery;

(an Unabridged Facsimile of The Singuliers Et Nouveaux Pourtraicts of 1587) Dover, 1971.
-A facsimile copy of Federico Vinciolo's "Singuliers et nouveaux pourtraicts" of 1587.
Contains patterns for needle and bobbin laces and also patterns for lacis.

Overview/ History
Andrews, Meg. “Slips: Late 16th/Early 17th Century Embroidery” –
http://www.victoriana.com/shops/andrews/slips.htm

Antrobus, Mary Symond and Louisa Preece. Needlework through the Ages.
London: Hodder & Strough, Ltd., 1928.
-Includes non-European work. Fewer plates than Schuette.

Arnold, Janet. Patterns of Fashion. Drama Books, 1985.

ISBN - 0-333-38284-6

Arthur, Liz. Embroidery 1600-1700 at the Burrell Collection. London: John Murray, 1995.

Backhouse, Janet D.H. and Turner, Leslie Webster, editors. The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art 966-1066.
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1984.

Beck, Thomasina. The Embroiderer's Story: Needlework from the Renaissance to the Present Day.
Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles, 1995.
ISBN - 0-7153-0238-8

Beck, Thomasina. Gardening with Silk and Gold: A History of Gardens in Embroidery.
Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles, 1997.

Beck, Thomasina. The Embroiderer's Flowers. Newton Abbott, Devon: David and Charles, 1992.

Benn, Elizabeth (ed). Treasures from the Embroiderers' Guild Collection. Devon: David & Charles, 1995.

Braun, Joseph. Die Liturgisches Gewandung in Occident und Orient.

Freiburg: Herdersche Verlagshandlung, 1907.
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Bridgeman, Harriet, and Elizabeth Drury, ed. Needlework, an Illustrated History.
London: Paddington Press, Ltd., 1978.
New York: Paddington Press, 1978
ISBN 0-448-22066-0.

Brooke,Xanthe.The Lady Lever Art Gallery Catalogue of Embroideries.

Alan Sutton Publishing, Inc., NH, 1992.
ISBN – 0-7509-01497 (hbk)
ISBN – 0-7509-0242-6 (pbk)

Camille, Michael. The Medieval Art of Love: Objects and Subjects of Desire.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1998

Cavello, Adolph S. Needlework. Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 1979.

LCC - 78-62725

Churchill Bath, Virginia. Embroidery Masterworks. Henry Regnery Company, 1972.

LCC - 72-183818

Clabburn, P. (1981). Masterpieces of Embroidery. Oxford, Phaidon Press.

Colton, Virginia, ed. Reader’s Digest Complete guide to Needlework.

Pleasantville, NY: The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc., 1979.
ISBN - 0-89577-059-8

Crowfoot, Elisabeth, Frances Pritchard and Kay Staniland.

Textiles and Clothing c.1150-1450. London: HMSO, 1992.

Elder, Karen. V&A Needlepoint Collection. London: Brockhampton Press, 1995.

Esperta di catalogazione multimediale delle arti applicate: Il Ricamo (Modulo 7).

www.economia.unical.it/storia_economica/semin_doc/modulo7.htm.

Fillitz, Hermann. Die Schatzkammer in Wien. Salzburg: Residenz Verlag, 1986.

Flury-Lemberg, Mechthild. Textile Conservation and Research. Bern: Abegg Stiftung, 1988.
ISBN - 3-905014-02-5.

Freeman, Margaret B. The St. Martin Embroideries.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1968.
Greenwich, CT: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1968.

Geijer, Agnes. The History of Textile Art. Phillip Wilson Publishers, Ltd., 1979.

Gostelow, M. Art of Embroidery: Great Needlework Collections of Britain and United States.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1979.

Gostelow, Mary. A World Of Embroidery. New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, Inc., 1975.

Gostelow, Mary. Embroidery. Arco Publications, NY, 1983.

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Gostelow, Mary. Mary Gostelow's Embroidery Book. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1979

Jones, Mary Eirwen. A History of Western Embroidery.

London: Studio Visto, 1969
New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1969.
ISBN - 289-79655-5.

Kurth, B. “Medieval Embroidery”. Ciba Review, 1945, no.50, pp. 1798-1828.

Paine, Sheila. Embroidered Textiles: Traditional Patterns from Five Continents. New York: Rizzoli, 1990.

Salazar, Kim Brody. The New Carolingian Modelbook:Counted Embroidery Patterns from Before 1600.
The Outlaw Press, 1995.
ISBN – 0-9642082-2-9
LCC – 95-70710

Schuette, Marie and Sigrid Müller-Christensen. A Pictorial History of Embroidery.

New York: Frederick A. Preager Inc, 1964.
-Available in French, English and German. Out of print, very expensive, use Interlibrary Loan.

Siegler, Susan. Needlework Patterns from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976.
ISBN 0-8212-0639-7(hbk) ISBN 0-8212-0736-9(pbk) LCC – 76-10097
TT 753.S495/1996 746.4’4

Snook, Barbara. The Creative Art of Embroidery. New York: Hamlyn, 1972.
ISBN – 0-600-31752-8

Staniland, K. Les Artisans du Moyen Age: Les Brodeurs. Hong Kong: Brepols, 1992.

Staniland, Kay. Medieval Craftsmen: Embroiderers.

Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1997.
London: British Museum Press, 1991. - ISBN 0-7141-2051-0.
University of Toronto Press, 1991. - ISBN 0-8020-6915-0

Stevens, Helen M. The Timeless Art of Embroidery. Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles, 1997.

Stradel, Marianne and Ulrike Brommer. Mit Nadel und Faden. Freiburg: Herder, 1990.
ISBN - 3-451-21608-6.

Symonds, Mary and Louisa Preece. Needlework through the Ages.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1928.

Synge, Lanto. Antique Needlework. Blandford Press, 1982.

ISBN - 0-7137-2128-6

Turgeon, Christine. Le Fil de l’Art. Quebec: Musee du Quebec, 2002.

Warner, Pamela. Embroidery, A History. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1991.

ISBN - 0-8020-6915-0
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Zimmerman, Jane. The Development of Western European Needlework:
Thirteenth Century Through Eighteenth Century.
Self-published. Richmond, California. 1982.

Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry - http://www.sjolander.com/viking/museum/bt/bt.htm

Regia Anglorum – Embroidery Techniques - http://www.regia.org/embroid.htm

Berstein, David. The Mystery of the Bayeux Tapestry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Denny, Norman and Josephine Filmer-Sankey. The Bayeux Tapestry: The Norman Conquest 1066.

Gibbs-Smith, Charles. The Bayeux Tapestry. Great Britain: Book Club Associates, 1973

Grape, Wolfgang. The Bayeux Tapestry: Monument to a Norman Triumph.

Munich /New York: Prestel-Verlag, 1994.
(English) ISBN 3-7913-1365-7
(German) ISBN 3-7913-1336-3
(French) ISBN 3-7913-1577-3

Jewel, Brian. Conquest and Overlord, the Story of the Bayeux Tapestry and the Overlord Embroidery.

Messert, Jan. The Bayeux Tapestry Embroiders’ Story. North Yorkshire: Madeira Threads, Ltd., 1999.

Stenton, Frank, ed. The Bayeux Tapestry.

Wilson, David M. The Bayeux Tapestry, The Complete Tapestry in Color.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

Samplers
Aston, Leigh. Samplers. London and Boston: The Medici Society, 1926.

Blackburn, C. "Samplers." Embroidery (Winter, 1970).

Christie, M. A. Samplers and Stitches: A Handbook of the Embroiderer's Art. London: Batsford, 1985.

Fawdry, Marguerite and Deborah Brown. The Book of Samplers.

London: Cameron and Tayleur, 1980. New York: St. Martin's, 1980.

Humphrey, Carol. Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks: Samplers.

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Kay, Dorothea. Embroidered Samplers. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979.

Montclare, Kay. Patterns From Seventeenth Century European Samplers.

(Self-published; Available from Special Projects, 232 Osgood Road, Milford, N.H. 03055-3430.)