MATHILDE'S COMPLETE EMBROIDERY BIBLIOGRAPHY:

  • Abegg, Margaret. Apropos Patterns for Embroidery, Lace and Woven Textiles. Bern: Stampfi, 1978.
  • Aber, Ita. The Art of Judaic Needlework: Traditional and contemporary designs. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 19 .
  • Anders, Nedda. Appliqué Old and New: Including Patchwork and Embroidery. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1967, 1976.
    ISBN 0-486-23246-8.
  • Arnold, Janet. Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd. Leeds: W.S.Maney & Son, Ltd., 1988.
    ISBN 0901286-20-6.
  • Arthur, Liz. Embroidery 1600-1700 at the Burrell Collection. London: John Murray (Publishers) Ltd, 1995.
    ISBN 0-7195-5413-6.
  • Atil, Esin. Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 19
    ISBN 0-874742145. LC N7385.3 .M35 A84.
  • Baginski, Alisa and Tidhar, Amalia. Textiles from Egypt: 4th-13th centuries C.E. Jerusalem: L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute for Islamic Art, 1980. LC NK8988.A1 T4 1980
  • Baker, Patricia L. Islamic Textiles. London: British Museum Press, 1995.
    ISBN 0-7141-2522-9. LC NK8908.9 .B25 1995.
  • Bassée, Nicolas. German Renaissance Patterns for Embroidery: A Facsimile Copy of Nicolas Bassée's New Modelbuch of 1568, with an introduction by Kathleen Epstein. Austin: Curious Works Press, 1994.
    ISBN 0-9633331-4-3.
  • 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.
  • Bayerisches Nationalmuseum München. Elizabethan Embroidery: Englische Textilkunst aus der Zeit Shakespeares. München: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, 1964.
  • Beck, Thomasina. Embroidered Gardens. New York: The Viking Press, 1979.
    ISBN 0-670-29260-5
  • Beck, Thomasina. The Embroiderer's Flowers. Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles, 1992.
    ISBN 0-7153-9901-2
  • Branting, Agnes and Lindblom, Andreas. Medieval Embroideries and Textiles in Sweden. Uppsala and Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri-A.-B., 1932.
  • Browne, Clare and Wearden, Jennifer. Samplers from the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: V&A Publications, 1999. ISBN 185177-309-6
  • Cavallo, Adolph S. Textiles: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Boston: Trustees, 1986.
    ISBN 0-914660-09-8 (hardbound) ISBN 0-914660-10-1 (softbound)
  • Cennini, Cennino d'Andrea (Translated by Daniel V. Thompson, Jr.). The Craftman's Handbook: "Il Libro dell'Arte". New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1960.
  • Clabburn, Pamela. Masterpieces of Embroidery. Oxford: Phaidon Press Limited, 1981.
    ISBN 0-7148-2046-6
  • Colby, Averil. Samplers. Newton Centre 59, Massachusetts: Charles T. Branford Co., 1964.
    LC NK9143 .C6.
  • Deruisseau, L. G. "Dress Fashions of the Italian Renaissance," Ciba Review, Vol. 17, January 1939.
  • Digby, George Wingfield. Elizabethan Embroidery. London: Faber and Faber, 1963.
  • Dillmont, Thérèse de. The Complete Encyclopedia of Needlework. Philadelphia: Running Press Book Publishers, 1996. 3rd edition (first French edition, 1884).
  • Edwards, Joan. Crewel Embroidery in England. New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1975.
    ISBN 0-688-02919-1.
  • Edwards, Joan. The Second of Joan Edwards' Small Books on the History of Embroidery: Black Work. Dorking, Surrey, England: Bayford Books, 1980.
    ISBN 0-907287-00-X.
  • Ellis, Marianne. Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2001.
  • Epstein, Kathleen. An Anonymous Woman: Her Work Wrought in the 17th Century. Austin, Texas: Curious Works Press, 1992.
    ISBN 0-9633331-1-9.
  • Epstein, Kathleen. British Embroidery: Curious Works from the Seventeenth Century. Williamsburg, Virginia: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and Austin, Texas: Curious Works Press, 1998.
    ISBN 0-87935-186-1, ISBN 0-9633331-9-4.
  • Epstein, Kathleen. "Concernynge the Excellency of the Nedle Worcke Spanisshe Stitche," Piecework Vol. III, No. 1, Jan/Feb 1995, pp. 78-83.
  • Errera, Isabelle. Collection d'Anciennes Étoffes Égyptiennes. Bruxelles: Imprimerie J.-E. Goossens, S.A., 1913.
    745 Er78
  • Fawdry, Marguerite and Brown, Deborah. The Book of Samplers. New York: St. Martin's Press; London: Cameron & Tayleur (Books) Ltd., 1980.
    ISBN 0-312-09006-4
  • Freeman, Margaret B. The St. Martin Embroideries. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1968.
  • Geddes, Elisabeth and McNeill, Moyra. Blackwork Embroidery. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1976.
    ISBN 0-486-23245-X.
  • Gostelow, Mary. Blackwork. London: B T Batsford Ltd., 1976.
    ISBN 0-7134-4621-8.
  • Gostelow, Mary. Mary Gostelow's Embroidery Book. New York: E.P Dutton, 1978.
    ISBN 0-87690-344-8.
  • Grönwaldt, Ruth. Textilien I: Webereien und Stickereien des Mittelalters. Hannover: Kestner-Museum Hannover, 1964.
  • Gudjónsson, Elsa E. Traditional Icelandic Embroidery. Reykjavík: Iceland Review, 1982.
  • Hofer, Hans. Ain new Formbuech'len der weyssen Arbeyt. Nieuwkoop, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1968. (Facsimile of the 1545 edition published in Augsburg)
  • Holme, Geoffrey (ed.). A Book of Old Embroidery: With articles by A.F. Kendrick (Keeper of the Department of Textiles at the Victoria and Albert Museum), Louisa F. Pesel & E.W. Newberry. London, Paris, New York: "The Studio," Ltd., 1921.
  • Humphrey, Carol. Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks: Samplers. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
    ISBN 0-521-57300-9 (hardback) 0-521-57592-3 (paperback) LC NK9143 .H86 1997
  • Ioannou-Yannara, Tatiana. Greek Threadwork: Lace. Athens: MELISSA Publishing House, 1989.
    LC NK9451 .A1 I53x 1989, Vol. 1 or 2?
  • Jones, Mary Eirwen. A History of Western Embroidery. London: Studio Vista Ltd.; New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1969.
    LC NK9242 .J6.
  • Juvet-Michel, A. "The Use of the Oriental Carpet and its Part in European Painting," Ciba Review, Vol. 15, November 1938, pp. 527-532.
  • Kendrick, A.F. Catalogue of Muhammadan Textiles of the Medieval Period. London: Published under the authority of the Board of Education, 1924.
  • Kendrick, A.F. Catalogue of Textiles from Burying-Grounds in Egypt, Vol. II: Period of Transition and of Christian Emblems. London: Published under the authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921.
  • Kendrick, A.F. Catalogue of Textiles from Burying-Grounds in Egypt, Vol. III: Coptic Period. London: Published under the authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1922.
  • King, Donald. "Cardinal Wolsey's Collection," in Oriental Carpet & Textile Studies I, Published in association with Hali Magazine, London, 1985 , pp. 41-54.
  • King, Donald and Levey, Santina. The Victoria & Albert Museum's Textile Collection: Embroidery in Britain from 1200 to 1750. New York: Canopy Books, 1993.
    ISBN 1-55859-652-6.
  • Kroos, Renate. Niedersächsische Bildstickereien des Mittelalters. Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1970.
  • Kühnel, Ernst and Bellinger, Louisa. Catalogue of Dated Tiraz Fabrics: Umayyad, Abbasid, Fatimid. Washington, National Pub. Co., 1952.
    LC NK8988 .W38 1952
  • Lamm , Carl Johan. Cotton in Mediaeval Textiles of the Near East. Paris: P. Geuthner, 1937.
  • Lamm, Carl Johan. "Some Mamlûk Embroideries," Ars Islamica Vol. IV, 1937, pp. 64-77.
    LC N6260 .A13
  • Lawner, Lynne. Lives of the Courtesans: Portraits of the Renaissance. New York: Rizzoli, 1987.
  • Levey, Santina. Elizabethan Treasures: The Hardwick Hall Textiles. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1998.
    ISBN 0-8109-6353-1.
  • Levey, Santina M. and Payne, Patricia C. Le Pompe, 1559: Patterns for Venetian bobbin lace. Carlton Bedford, England: Ruth Bean, 1983.
    ISBN 0-903585-16-2.
  • Lotz, Arthur. Bibliographie der Modelbücher. Leipzig: Ver Lag Karl W. Hiersemann, 1933.
  • Mayer-Thurman, Christa C. Textiles in the Art Institute of Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992.
    ISBN 0-8109-3856-1 (hardback) 0-86559-094-X (paperback). LC NK8802 .C47A783 1992.
  • Mitch, Carol (now C. Kathryn Newell) and Cain, Elizabeth A. (as Kathryn Goodwyn and Elspeth of Morven). Flowers of the Needle. Boston: private publication, 1985. (photocopies of seven 16th century Italian pattern books, with translations).
  • Mitchell, Timothy J. (as Richard of Waymarc). "A Stitch Out of Time: 14th and 15th Century German Counted Thread Embroidery," The Compleat Anachronist, Issue #86, July 1996.
  • Neubecker, Ottfried. Heraldry: Sources, Symbols and Meaning. Maidenhead, U.K.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Limited, 1976.
  • Nevinson, J. L. "Costume in Castile," The Connoisseur, XCVII, 19--, pp. 10-15.
  • Nevinson, J. L. "The Embroidery Patterns of Thomas Trevelyon," Walpole Society, Vol. 41, 1966/68, pp. 1-38.
  • Nevinson, J. L. "English Embroidered Costume: Elizabeth and James I," Part I and II, The Connoisseur, XCVII, 1936, pp. 23-28 and 140-144.
  • Nevinson, J. L. "Unrecorded Types of English Embroidery in the Collection of Lord Middleton," Part I and II, The Connoisseur, CIII, 1939, pp. 16-20 and 136-141.
  • Nevinson, J. L. "Peter Stent and John Overton, Publishers of Embroidery Designs," Apollo, XXIV, November 1936, pp. 279-283.
  • Newall, Kathryn. Needlework Patterns from Renaissance Germany: Designs recharted by Kathryn Newall from Johan Sibmacher's Schön Neues Modelbuch, 1597. Boulder, CO: Costume & Dressmaker Press, 1999.
  • Nourry, Claude and Saincte Louie[sic], Pierre de. Patterns: Embroidery: Early 16th Century. Berkeley, CA: Lacis, 1999.
    ISBN 1-891656-16-3.
  • Otavsky, Karel and Salîm, Muhammad 'Abbâs Muhammad. Mittelalterliche Textilien I: Ägypten, Persien und Mesopotamien, Spanien und Nordafrika. Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 1995.
    ISBN 3905014068. LC NK8803 .A24 1995.
  • Paludan, Charlotte and de Hemmer Egeberg, Lone. 98 Pattern Books for Embroidery, Lace, and Knitting. (98 Mønsterbøger til Broderi, Knipling og Strikning). Denmark, 1991.
    ISBN 8787075768
  • Pesel, Louisa F. Historical Designs for Embroidery. London: B T Batsford Ltd., 1956. Republished by the Counted Thread Society of America, 3305 S. Newport Street, Denver, Colorado 80224.
  • Rhodes, Mary. The Batsford Book of Canvas Work. London: B T Batsford Ltd., 1983.
    ISBN 0-7134-2669-1
  • Ricci, Elisa. Italian Lace Designs: 243 Classic Examples. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1993.
    ISBN 0-486-27588-4
  • Rogers, Clive (ed.). Early Islamic Textiles. Brighton: Rogers and Podmore, 1983.
    ISBN 0-9508875-0-1 (soft), 0-9508875-1-X (hard).
  • Salazar, Kim Brody (as Ianthe d'Averoigne). The New Carolingian Modelbook: Counted Embroidery Patterns from before 1600. Albuquerque, New Mexico: The Outlaw Press, 1995.
    ISBN 0-9642082-2-9.
  • Schuette, Marie and Mueller-Christensen, Sigrid. A Pictorial History of Embroidery. New York: Praeger, 1964.
  • Shorleyker, Richard. A Schole-House for the Needle: Produced from the original book printed in 1632 and now in the private collection of John and Elizabeth Mason. Much Wenlock, Shropshire: RJL Smith & Associates, 1998.
    ISBN 1-872665-72-1.
  • Sibmacher, Johan. Baroque Charted Designs for Needlework. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1975.
    Described as "This Dover edition, first published in 1975, is an unabridged republication of the 1880 edition of Newes Modelbuch . . . . Inn Druck verfertigt, a work originally published in Nuremberg in 1604. The 1880 edition was published by Ernst Wasmuth in Berlin in 1880 under the title Kreuzstich-Muster, 36 Tafeln der Ausgabe v. 1604 ("Cross-stitch Patterns, 36 Plates of the 1604 Edition.") This edition contains new translations of the original 1604 title page and dedication."
    ISBN 0-486-23186-0.
  • Siegler, Susan. Needlework Patterns from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Boston: New York Graphic Art Society, 1976.
    ISBN 0-8212-0639-7 (cloth), 0-8212-0736-9 (paper) LC TT753 .S495 1976.
  • Smith, Alistair. The National Gallery Schools of Painting: Early Netherlandish and German Paintings. London: The National Gallery in association with William Collins, 1985.
    ISBN 0-00-217404-9
  • Snook, Barbara. English Historical Embroidery. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1960.
  • Speirs, Gill and Quemby, Sigrid. A Treasury of Embroidery Designs: Charts and Patterns from the Great Collections. London: Bell and Hyman Ltd, 1985.
    ISBN 0-7135-2056-1
  • Staniland, Kay. Medieval Craftsmen: Embroiderers. British Museum Press and University of Toronto Press, 1991.
    ISBN 0-8020-6915-0
  • Swain, Margaret H. Historical Needlework: A Study of Influences in Scotland and Northern England. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970.
  • Swain, Margaret. The Needlework of Mary Queen of Scots. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1973.
    ISBN 0-442-29962-1
  • Swift, Gay. The Larousse Encyclopedia of Embroidery Techniques. New York: Larousse & Co.,Inc., 1984.
    ISBN 0-88332-365-6
  • Taylor, Roderick. Embroidery of the Greek Islands and Epirus. Brooklyn, NY: Interlink Books, 1998.
    ISBN 1-899296-05-0. LC NK9251 .A3 A438 1998
  • Thomas, Thelma K. Textiles from Medieval Egypt, A.D. 300-1300. Pittsburgh, PA: The Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 1990. (Copyright held by The Board of Trustees, Carnegie Institute).
    ISBN 0-911239-20-0.
  • Tissus d'Égypte: Témoins du Monde Arabe, VIIIe - XVe siècles: Collection Bouvier. Thonon-les-Bains: Albaron; Genève: Musée d'art et d'histoire; Paris: Institut du monde arabe, 1993.
    ISBN 2908528525. LC NK8988 .A1 T5 1993.
  • Trilling, James. Aegean Crossroads: Greek Island Embroidery in the Textile Museum. Washington, D.C.: The Textile Museum, 1983.
    ISBN 0-87405-021-9. LC NK9251 .A31747 1983.
  • Vinciolo, Federico. Renaissance Patterns for Lace, Embroidery and Needlepoint (An unabridged facsimile of the "Singuliers et nouveaux pourtraicts" of 1587). New York: Dover Publications, Inc. 1971.
    ISBN 0-486-22438-4
  • Volbach, W.F. and Kuehnel, Ernst. Late Antique, Coptic and Islamic Textiles of Egypt. New York: E. Weyhe, 1926.
    745 V8831
  • Walder, John. All Colour Book of Henry VIII. London: Octopus Books Limited, 1973.
    ISBN 0-7064-0232-4.
  • Wardle, Patricia. "The Embroideries of Mary, Queen of Scots: Notes on the French Background," Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 64, No. 1/2, 1981, pp. 3-14.
  • Wetter, Evelin. Böhmische Bildstickerei um 1400. Die Stiftungen in Trient, Brandenburg und Danzig. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2001.
    ISBN 3-7861-2360-8.
  • Wittlin, A. "The Development of Silk Weaving in Spain," Ciba Review, Vol. 20, April 1939, pp. 707-721.
  • Zaccagnino, Denise. "Sixteenth-Century Turkish Light Embroidery: Pattern Darning," Tournaments Illuminated, Issue 111, Summer 1994, pp. 20-25.

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