General Textile Reference

 
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 Å The Bayeux Tapestry            Å Collecting Textiles            Å Conservation/Preservation              Å Exhibit & Auction Catalogs            Å Folk Art            Å Needlework & Embroidery
Å Quilts            Å Tapestries & Weaving
 
 
~ The Bayeux Tapestry ~

The Bayeux Tapestry: Monument to a Norman Triumph

Wolfgang Grape

ISBN: 3791313657

Prestel

1994

SC   180 pp.

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New

Inventory #10-02-1347

$30.00


~ Collecting Textiles ~


Antique Quilts & Textiles: A Price Guide to Functional and Fashionable Cloth Comforts

Bobbie Aug & Gerald Roy

ISBN: 1574323741

Collector Books

2004

Pictorial HC   191 pp.

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New

Inventory #10-00-3824

$20.00


Les Cartes Postales brodees de Agnes et Louis Delage

ISBN: 2842704940

Mango Practique

2005

Pictorial HC   127 pp.   (French text)

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New

Inventory #10-00-1084

$28.00


Linens and Lace

Tricia Foley

ISBN: 0517576805

Clarkson Potter Publishers

1990

HC w/ dust jacket   87 pp.

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Used (Very Good - PO name neatly on ffep)

Inventory #10-00-4336

$12.00


Miller's Collecting Textiles

Patricia Frost

ISBN: 1840002034

Octopus Publishing Group Ltd.

2000

HC w/ dust jacket   160 pp.

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New (Light edge wear)

Inventory #10-00-4012

$15.00


~ Conservation/Preservation ~


The Conservation of Tapestries and Embroideries

The Getty Conservation Institute

ISBN: 0892361549

1989

SC   118 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #10-00-3512

$24.00


~ Exhibit & Auction Catalogs ~


NEW!

American Coverlets And Their Weavers: Coverlets From The Collection of Foster and Muriel McCarl

Clarita S. Anderson

ISBN: 0821414445

Ohio University Press

2002

HC w/ dust jacket   247 pp.

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New

Inventory #10-00-4643

$34.00


The Art of Annemieke Mein: Wildlife Artist in Textiles

Annemieke Mein

ISBN: 0855327758

Search Press

1996

HC w/ dust jacket   159 pp.

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Used (Like New/Very Good)

Inventory #10-00-4300

$27.00


Baltimore Album Quilts

Dena S. Katzenberg

ISBN: 0912298529

The Baltimore Museum of Art

1981

SC   124 pp.

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Used (Like New - Name on ffep)

Inventory #10-00-3059A

$200.00


Design & The Decorative Arts: Victorian Britain 1837 ~ 1901

Michael Snodin & John Styles

ISBN: 0810966190

Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

2004

SC   167 pp.

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Used (Like New)

Inventory #10-00-4151

$22.00


The Embroideries at Hardwick Hall: a catalogue

Santina M. Levey

ISBN: 9781905400515

The National Trust

2007

HC w/ dust jacket   400 pp.

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New

Inventory #10-02-3255

$129.00


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Important Needlework Collected by the late Sir Frederick Richmond Bt.

ISBN: None

Christie's of London

2001

SC   94 pp.

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Used (Like New)

Inventory #10-00-4633

$46.00


The Lady Lever Art Gallery Catalogue of Embroideries

Xanthe Brooke

ISBN: 0750902426

Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd.

1992

SC   305 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #10-00-4518

$124.00


Painted with Thread: The Art of American Embroidery

Paula Bradstreet Richter

ISBN: 0883891190

Peabody Essex Museum

2001

SC   157 pp.

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Used (Very Good - Spine bumped on upper left side)

Inventory #10-00-3780

$28.00


To Ornament Their Minds: Sarah Pierce's Litchfield Female Academy 1792 - 1833

Theodore and Nancy Sizer, Sally Schwager, Lynne Templeton Brickley & Glee Krueger

ISBN: None

The Litchfield Historical Society

1993

SC   132 pp.

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Used (Very Good - some corner creasing to both front & back covers)

Inventory #10-00-3693

$42.00


~ Folk Art ~


Decorative Motifs from the Southern Backcountry 1750 - 1825

Kay Moss

ISBN: 0971291322

Schiele Museum of Natural History

2001

HC w/ dust jacket   106 pp.

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New

Inventory #10-00-4268

$24.00


Decorative Motifs from the Southern Backcountry 1750 - 1825

Kay Moss

ISBN: 0971291330

Schiele Museum of Natural History

2001

SC   106 pp.

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New

Inventory #10-00-4267

$20.00


The Flowering of American Folk Art (1776 ~ 1876)

Jean Lipman & Alice Winchester

ISBN: 0670321206

The Viking Press

1974

SC   288 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #10-00-3479

$16.00


~ Needlework & Embroidery ~


A Devotional Miscellany: A printed replica of an embroidered book in The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

with text by Margaret Swain

ISBN: None

Bruder Hartmann

No date given

Decorative HC w/ slipcase

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Used (Like New/Very Good)

Inventory #10-00-3843

$45.00


A Winterthur Guide to American Needlework

Susan Burrows Swan
ISBN: 0517521776

Crown Publishers, Inc.

1976

SC   144 pp.

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Used (Very Good - light cover wear)

Inventory #10-00-4146

$10.00


A World of Embroidery

Mary Gostelow

ISBN: 0684142309

Charles Scribner's Sons

1975

HC w/ dust jacket   512 pp.

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Used (Very Good+/Good+ - Small tears on dj)

Inventory #10-00-3247

$12.00


Ayrshire and Other Whitework

Margaret Swain

ISBN: 0852635893

Shire Publications Ltd.

2001

SC   32 pp.

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New

Inventory #10-07-SI14

$9.00


Color and Fiber

Patricia Lambert, Barbara Staepelaere & Mary G. Fry

ISBN: 0887400655

Schiffer Publishing Ltd.

1986

HC w/ dust jacket   255 pp.

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Used (Like New/Very Good+)

Inventory #10-00-4298

$26.00


The Complete International Book of Embroidery

Mary Gostelow

ISBN: 0671228862

Simon and Schuster

1977

HC w/ dust jacket   288 pp.

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Used (Good/Good)

Inventory #10-00-3593

$12.00


Embroidered Georgian Pictures

Margaret Swain

ISBN: 0747802564

Shire Publications Ltd.

1994

SC   32 pp.

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New

Inventory #10-07-SI79

$9.00


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Embroidered Textiles: Traditional Patterns from Five Continents With A Worldwide Guide to Identification

Sheila Paine

ISBN: 0500278237

Thames and Hudson

1990

SC   192 pp.

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Used (Very Good - PO name on title page)

Inventory #10-00-4622

$38.00


The Embroiderer's Garden

Thomasina Beck

ISBN: 071530691X

David & Charles

1999

SC  191 pp.

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New

Inventory #10-00-3733

$20.00


The Fine Art of Textiles

Dilys E. Blum

ISBN: 0876331169

Philadelphia Museum of Art

1997

SC   208 pp.

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New

Inventory #10-00-3993A

$14.00


Gardening with Silk and Gold: A History of Gardens in Embroidery

Thomasina Beck

ISBN: 0715313665

David & Charles

2002

SC   160 pp.

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New

Inventory #10-00-3082

$24.00


Historical Needlework of Pennsylvania

Margaret B. Schiffer
ISBN: None

Charles Scribner's Sons

1968

HC w/ dust jacket   160 pp.

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Used (Very Good/Good+ - some wear & tear to dj edges; inside dj flap wrinkled)

Inventory #10-00-3835

$25.00


The Needle Arts

ISBN: 0809468425

Time-Life Books

1990

Pictorial HC   175 pp.

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Used (Very Good+)

Inventory #10-00-3761

$25.00


Needlework: An Historical Survey - A New and Expanded Edition

edited by Betty Ring

ISBN: 0915590565

The Main Street Press

1984

SC   192 pp.

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Used (Very Good++)

Inventory #10-00-4188

$60.00


Needlework: An Illustrated History

edited by Harriet Bridgeman & Elizabeth Drury

ISBN: 0448220660

Paddington Press Ltd.

1978

HC w/ dust jacket   368 pp.

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Used (Like New/Very Good - dj covered in Brodart protector)

Inventory #10-00-3753

$58.00


The Praise of the Needle: John Taylor's Poem of 1631

with Annotations by Kathleen Epstein

ISBN: 096333316X

Curious Works Press

1995

SC   58 pp.

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New

Inventory #10-02-4508

$9.00


Scottish Embroidery: Medieval to Modern

Margaret Swain

ISBN: 0713446382

B. T. Batsford Ltd.

1986

HC w/ dust jacket   190 pp.

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Used (Like New/Very Good+)

Inventory #10-00-4198

$122.00


Shaker Textile Arts

Beverly Gordon

ISBN: 0874512425

University Press of New England

1983

SC   329 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #10-00-4175

$18.00


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Threading Time: A Cultural History of Threadwork

Dolores Bausum

ISBN: 0875652417

TCU Press

2001

HC w/ dust jacket   217 pp.

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Used (Like New/Very Good)

Inventory #10-00-3692

$38.00


Victorian Embroidery: An Authoritative Guide

Barbara Morris

ISBN: 0486426092

Dover Publications, Inc.

2003

SC   238 pp.

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New

Inventory #10-07-DZ53

$17.00


Western European Embroidery in the Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum

ISBN: None

The Smithsonian Institution

1978

SC   20 plates

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Used (Very Good - small name on title page)

Inventory #10-00-4076

$16.00


~ Quilts ~


The 1776 Quilt: Heartache, Heritage and Happiness

Pam Holland

ISBN: 1933308109

Breckling Press

2007

SC   164 pp.

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Used (Very Good+)

Inventory #10-00-3915

$24.00


A Gallery of Amish Quilts: Design Diversity from a Plain People

Robert Bishop & Elizabeth Safanda

ISBN: 0525474447

E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.

1976

SC   96 pp.

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Used (Very Good - Small inscription on title page)

Inventory #10-00-3443

$12.00


American Quiltmaking 1970 ~ 2000

Eleanor Levie

ISBN: 1574328433

American Quilter's Society

2004

SC   143 pp.

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New

Inventory #10-00-4116

$16.00


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American Quilts & Coverlets in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Amelia Peck

ISBN: 9781588392718

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2007

HC w/ dust jacket   320 pp.

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Used (Like New)

Inventory #10-00-4644

$42.00


American Quilts: A Sampler of Quilts and Their Stories

Jennifer Regan

ISBN: 0831772867

Gallery Books

1989

HC w/ dust jacket   160 pp.

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Used (Very Good/Very Good - small gift inscription on ffep)

Inventory #10-00-4554

$10.00


America's Glorious Quilts

edited by Dennis Duke & Deborah Harding

ISBN: 0883636603

Beaux Arts Editions

1987

HC w/ dust jacket   320 pp.

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Used (Like New/Very Good+ - Some edgewear to top of dust jacket)

Inventory #10-00-3351

$22.00


Connecting Quilts, Art & Textiles

M. Joan Lintault

ISBN: 9780964120143

Dragon Threads Ltd.

2007

SC   128 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #10-00-4520

$18.00


Florida Quilts

Charlotte Allen Williams

ISBN: 0813011639

University Press of Florida

1992

HC w/ dust jacket   232 pp.

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Used (Like New/Very Good+)

Inventory #10-00-3826

$24.00


For Purpose and Pleasure: Quilting Together in Nineteenth-Century America

Sandi Fox

ISBN: 1558533370

Rutledge Hill Press

1995

SC   164 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #10-00-4174

$20.00


Homage to Amanda: Two Hundred Years of American Quilts from the collection of Edwin Binney, III & Gail Binney-Winslow

ISBN: 0961370807

R K Press

1984

SC   96 pp.

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Used (Very Good - PO bookplate on ffep)

Inventory #10-00-3446

$12.00


Pennsylvania Quilts: One Hundred Years 1830 ~ 1930

No author stated

ISBN: None

Moore College of Art

1978

SC   12 pp.

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Used (Very Good - signed by gallery director "with compliments")

Inventory #10-00-4074

$30.00


Quilt Masterpieces

Susanna Pfeffer

ISBN: 0883636808

Beaux Arts Editions

1988

HC w/ dust jacket   111 pp.

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New

Inventory #10-00-4028

$16.00


Quilts of Provence: The Art and Craft of French Quiltmaking

Kathryn Berenson

ISBN: 0805046399

Henry Holt and Company

1996

HC w/ dust jacket   192 pp.

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Used (Like New/Very Good - Light wrinkling along top of dj)

Inventory #10-00-3432

$26.00


Quilts: An American Heritage

Terri Zegart

ISBN: 0831704209

Smithmark Publishers Inc.

1994

HC w/ dust jacket   128 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #10-00-3995

$16.00


Quilts and Coverlets from The American Museum in Britain

Shiela Betterton

ISBN: 0950497142

The American Museum in Britain

1978

SC   128 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #10-00-4522

$22.00


The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt in America

Carrie A. Hall & Rose G. Kretsinger

ISBN: None

Bonanza Books

1935

HC w/ dust jacket   299 pp.

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Used (Very Good/Very Good)

Inventory #10-00-3056

$8.00


Shared Threads: Quilting Together ~ Past and Present

Jacqueline Marx Atkins

ISBN: 0525486038

Viking Studio Books

1994

SC   143 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #10-00-3408

$16.00


Treasures in the Trunk: Quilts of the Oregon Trail

Mary Bywater Cross

ISBN: 1558532374

Rutledge Hill Press

1993

SC   174 pp.

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Used (Like New)

Inventory #10-00-4176

$15.00


~ Tapestries & Weaving ~


Five Centuries of Tapestry

Anna Gray Bennett

ISBN: 0884010198

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

1976

SC   253 pp.

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Used (Very Good+)

Inventory #10-00-2102

$10.00


Flemish Tapestry

Guy Delmarcel

ISBN: 0810933454

Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

1999

HC w/ dust jacket   382 pp.

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Used (Like New/Like New)

Inventory #10-00-3395

$60.00


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The Gift of Spiderwoman: Southwestern Textiles - The Navajo Tradition

Joe Ben Wheat

ISBN: None

The University Museum - University of Pennsylvania

1984

SC   48 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #10-00-4632

$16.00


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In Beauty It Is Finished: The McDermott Collection of Navajo Blankets at Dallas Public Library

edited by Pam Lange

ISBN: None

Dallas Public Library

1983

SC   13 pp. + 21 plates

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #10-00-4634

$22.00


Masterpieces of French Tapestry: Medieval, Renaissance & Modern

ISBN: None

The Art Institute of Chicago

1948

SC   88 pp.

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Used (Good+ - Fading at spine)

Inventory #10-00-2103

$14.00


Masterpieces of Tapestry from the 14th to the 16th Century

ISBN: 0870990861

No Information given

1973

SC   222 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #10-00-3690

$10.00


Medieval Life and Leisure in the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries

Linda Woolley

ISBN: 0810966018

V & A Publications

2002

HC w/ dust jacket   117 pp. + 4 fold-out sheets

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New

Inventory #10-00-2023

$45.00


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The Navajo Weaving Tradition: 1650 to the Present

Alice Kaufman & Christopher Selser

ISBN: 052548194X

E. P. Dutton, Inc.

1985

SC   150 pp.

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Used (Very Good)

Inventory #10-00-4635

$18.00


The Quaker Tapestry Guide in Colour

ISBN: 0951158147

The Quaker Tapestry Scheme

1992

SC   96 pp.

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Used (Good - the book has suffered  a spill that left a dampstain around the upper right corner; affects approximately the first 12 pages and last 2 pages; color plates and body of book are very good)

Inventory #10-00-4190

$8.00


Resplendence of the Spanish Monarchy: Renaissance Tapestries and Armor from the Patrimonio Nacional

ISBN: 0810964082

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1991

HC w/ dust jacket   172 pp.

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New

Inventory #10-00-2021

$12.00


The St. Martin Embroideries: A fifteenth-century series illustrating the life and legend of St. Martin of Tours

Margaret B. Freeman

ISBN: None

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1968

HC w/ dust jacket   132 pp.

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Used (Very Good/Good+)

Inventory #10-00-3201

$16.00


Tapestry

Barty Phillips

ISBN: 0714838624

Phaidon

2000

SC   240 pp.

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Used (Like New - Remainder mark on bottom edge)

Inventory #10-00-3396

$18.00


The Tapestry Collection: Medieval and Renaissance

G. F. Wingfield Digby

ISBN: 0112902464

Her Majesty's Stationery Office

1980

HC w/ dust jacket   83 pp. + 108 plates

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Used (Like New/Very Good - light edgewear to dj)

Inventory #10-00-4334

$32.00


~ Available To Order ~

Below are titles that have been on the website and are available to order. I order from most suppliers either weekly or biweekly and this will enable you to purchase books that are not in stock, but that can be ordered for you. Ordering books from this category will not affect the shipment of books in your order that are in stock at the time of purchase. Please understand that I cannot guarantee shipment dates for these titles, so if you need a title by a specific date, please email and let me know. I receive most orders within two weeks so please allow three weeks from the time you place your order to expect notification of shipment of your item(s). As always, email with any questions. I am always happy to hear from you!


Aprons: Icons of the American Home

Joyce Cheney

ISBN: 0762406941

Running Press

2000

HC w/ dust jacket   144 pp.

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Inventory #10-09-0019

Pre-Order - Not in stock

$25.00


British Embroidery: Curious Works from the Seventeenth Century

Kathleen Epstein

ISBN: 0879351861

Curious Works Press

1998

SC   109 pp.

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Inventory #10-02-1620

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$25.00


Collecting Antique Linens, Lace & Needlework: Identification, Restoration and Prices

Frances Johnson

ISBN: 0870696335

Krause Publications

1991

SC   200 pp.

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New

Inventory #07-CI71

Pre-Order - Not in stock

$27.00


Designer's Guide to Patterns: French

Catherine Bindman

ISBN: 0811804720

Chronicle Books

1993

SC   128 pp.

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New

Inventory #07-FM02

Pre-Order - Not in stock

$7.00


Designer's Guide to Patterns: Scandinavian

Thomas Parsons

ISBN: 081180495X

Chronicle Books

1993

SC   128 pp.

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New

Inventory #07-FB01

Pre-Order - Not in stock

$8.00


Medieval Craftsmen: Embroiderers

Kay Staniland

ISBN: 0802069150

University of Toronto Press

2002

SC   72 pp.

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New

Inventory #10-09-0044

Pre-Order - Not in stock

$25.00


English Embroideries

Mary M. Brooks
ISBN: 1854441922

Jonathan Horne Publications

2004

SC   96 pp.

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New

Inventory #10-09-0001

Pre-Order - Not in stock

$16.00


Flowers of Silk & Gold: Four Centuries of Ottoman Embroidery

Sumru Belger Krody

ISBN: 1858941059

Merrell

2000

HC w/ dust jacket   160 pp.

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