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The Viking Press [Published date: 1979]. Hard cover, 143 pp. [Excerpt from front flap) The arts of needlework and gardening have existed side by side for centuries, drawing a unique and special inspiration from each other. Embroidered Gardens looks at needlework in a new and exciting way. It shows how embroidery has reflected contemporary gardens through the centuries, and gardens in turn have been inspired by the embroiderer's needle. This fascinating parallel, as it has existed from Elizabethan times to the present day, is illustrated with engravings, woodcuts and paintings together with a wealth of embroideries and patterns and photographs of gardens. Embroidered Gardens is an enchanting book to look at and makes lively reading for anyone with an interest in gardens or needlework. But above all, it is a book intended to be used. The final chapter, "Ideas for Embroidering Gardens", shows how to create beautiful embroideries in a variety of techniques including blackwork, knotting, Berlin. woolwork, and stumpwork using original motifs drawn from the gardens of history. Embroidered Gardens will instruct and inspire the embroiderer and delight the gardener with its story of the charming vanished gardens of the past.