The Preface was written by Professor Alan John Bayard Wace (1879-1957), archaeologist and expert on Greek island embroideries. The book thus takes a somewhat different approach to embroidery from that by Lady Marian Alford's Needlework as Art.
Source: EDWARDS, Joan (1976). 'A survey of English literature of embroidery, 1840-1940', The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 76, pp. 3-20. Dowload here.
The book can be downloaded here (retrieved 20 November 2016).
Digital source of illustration (retrieved 20 November 2016).
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