The Flowerers - The Origins and History of Ayrshire Needlework
Title: The Flowerers - The Origins and History of Ayrshire Needlework
Author: Margaret H. Swain
Publisher: W. & R. Chambers Ltd., London and Edinburgh
Date: 1955
Hardback - Signed 1st Edition with original dustcover. 62pp. Illustrated with b/w plates
Synopsis
This is the story of Ayrshire Needlework and how this beautiful white work fitted into the history of embroidery. The author relates why the finest samples were upon cotton muslin and why the delicate tamboured fabric was flowered in this corner of Scotland.
Men and woman emerge from the story; the kind, hard-working Italian , Luigi Ruffini with his school of design; the substantial Mrs Jamieson of Ayr with her new style of sewed muslin and its fine needle-point fillings; these and a dozen others who developed a skill which; with embroidery; was exported for beyond the the bounds of Ayrshire.
Condition Notes
A fine copy of this original work with and original signed dedicatioon bu the author combined withn a signed business card.
The original dustcover as somelight fraying and minor tears around the edges with a small tape repair along the top edge. Inside the pages are bright and clean throughout.
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