Embroidery designs for fashion and furnishings
Subtitle: from the Victoria and Albert Museum
By: Moira Thunder
Contributors: Victoria and Albert Museum
Publisher: V&A Publishing, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.  Distributed in the U.S.A. by Abrams, New York.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781851778140
Subjects: Victoria and Albert Museum; Catalogs; Embroidery
Description: Highlights of the collection of designs for embroidery at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Focusing on designs for fashion, accessories, and furnishings, it includes gowns, jackets, bags, collars, children's clothing, saddle pouches, and designs for home furnishing as well as poignant embroidery on love and intimacy. Featuring designs from the Italian Renaissance to the embroidery patterns of Morris & Co. and 20th-century Russian creations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Fashion; title: Accessories; title: Furnishings.