The Batsford Book of Canvas Work
Rhodes, Mary
B. T. Batsford Ltd., London, 1983
ISBN# 0-7134-2669-1
Wonderfully useful historical overview – with considerable depth for each time period including early, medieval, and Elizabethan. Review of threads, stitches, patterns, along with who and why. A brief stitch description section of referenced stitches completes the book. SB
Begins with the Origins of Canvas work includes German work; things from the Crusades; Mediaeval; Elizabethan period and on into the 17th, 18th ,Victorian and 20th c. CL
Intermediate