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Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework, 1650-1850
by Betty Ring
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Knopf (1993-10-12)
ISBN: 0394550099
EAN: 9780394550091
Dewy Decimal #: 746.3973
Hardcover: 583 pages
Edition: 1st ed
Release Date: 1993-10-12
Condition: As New
Comments: 2 Volume Set, 9 x 12, 583 pages in the two books, Hardcovers with dustjacket in protected mylar cover (removable). Books are dated 1993, First Edition with dustjackets dated 1999. ( I believe these jackets were done for books that were left after slip cases were no longer available from publisher) Books & Dustjackets are in Unused Condition. Books are completely intact with inside pages in Excellent Condition with no tears and with no notations (no pencil marks, no underlining, no highlighting, etc.) Fast Service. Books well packed.
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Customer Reviews
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Expensive, but worth every penny!
Rating  (5)
Date: 1997-10-19
13 out of 16 customers found this reveiw helpful
Have had this set in my library for over a year, but cannot say I have read every page ... but have used is for information gathering AND JUST PURE PLEASURE. A big "Well Done" for Ms. Ring!
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Complete guide to an important period of needlework history
Rating (5)
Date: 1996-06-17
30 out of 30 customers found this reveiw helpful
Betty Ring is a renowned needlework historian who really
knocked herself out for this complete look at American needlework
from the 1650s through the 1850s. While this two-book set may
seem expensive, rest assured it's filled with color and black
and white photographs of samplers, paintings, and newspaper
clippings about needlework during this 200-year period.
The writing is thick -- not a "day at the beach" reader, but
is chock-full of information for the different time periods and
areas of the U.S. covered here (the East Coast, mostly New England).
There are no patterns here to follow, nor are there many descriptions
of the stitches themselves. This book gives unique insight into
the origin of outstanding pieces of art/needlework, and discusses
at length the history of the schools that taught such work.
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