Chapter I: Front Matter

AN EMBROIDERY BOOK

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN, ASSYRIAN,
AND PERSIAN COSTUMES AND
DECORATIONS.

By =Mary G. Houston= and =Florence S. Hornblower=.

_Containing 25 full-page illustrations, sixteen of them
in colour, and 60 line diagrams in the text._

_Small crown quarto._

In this volume the history of Costume is traced
from the earliest ages. The illustrations (which are
taken chiefly from the British Museum) are given in
facsimile from the drawings of the artists of the period,
and, where the drawing is too primitive to be easily
understood, a garment is also shown drawn in modern
style; in addition, every type of garment illustrated
is accompanied by a flat pattern showing the _cut_.
Information of this special character on Ancient
Costume is usually very difficult to obtain, and it is
anticipated that the volume will be of first-rate
importance to dress designers, to theatrical designers,
and also to the schools in which historical costume
and the history of the progress of the human race
are subjects for study.

PUBLISHED BY A. & C. BLACK, LTD., 4, 5 & 6, SOHO
SQUARE, LONDON, W. 1.

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A TABLE MAT. (_See page 41._)]

AN
EMBROIDERY
BOOK

BY
ANNE KNOX ARTHUR
GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART

CONTAINING SIXTEEN FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
--EIGHT OF THEM IN COLOUR--AND EIGHTY-
SEVEN LINE ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

A. & C. BLACK, LTD.
4, 5 & 6, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. 1.
1920

“_Go, little booke; God send thee good passage_”

TO
MY MOTHER

NOTE

The Author’s thanks are due to the owners of the pieces of embroidery illustrated in this book who kindly lent them to her for reproduction:--Miss Beatrice Brooks, Miss Marion Boyd, Miss Janetta S. Gillespie, Miss Mary A. Gill, Miss Martha Stevenson, Miss Elspeth Stewart, Miss Jessie Gibson (students of the Glasgow School of Art); also to Miss Kay, Parkhurst, Cedars, Derby, for the loan of three pieces worked by her pupils.