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...And so to embroider: Designing with leaves
Needlework Development Scheme (Great Britain)
mid 20th Century
A leaflet published by the Needlework Development Scheme. This leaflet is bulletin 26B in part of a series of leaflets on how to decorate fabrics in and around the home. The leaflet gives suggestions ...
sampler
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
1932
Embroidered cross stitch sampler in wool of a border pattern of a winding stem with leaves and a flower on a blue ground. Label gives the title "Leaves".
2 Lectures given in French in Geneva on Greek embroidery
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
early 20th Century
Approximately 50 leaves of lecture notes in French, on the subject of Greek embroidery (given as two lectures in French in Geneva).
sampler
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
late 19th-mid 20th Century
Three small examples of embroidery of individual flowers or leaves sample of wool embroidery on plain woven cotton canvas.
sampler
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
1870-1947
Sampler with an embroidered design possibly of flowers and leaves partly worked in one corner with the unworked design drawn in. There are also separate lines of stitching.
embroidery sample
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
1870-1947
Fabric with varied embroidery stitches including partially worked designs for leaves and flowers based on drawn designs one of which includes numbering possibly indicating colours.
sampler
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
1870-1947
counted stitching on canvas on linen ground in possible bag form, with flower and border. The loose weave canvas has begun to be taken away to leave a cross-stitch design.
pochette sampler
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
1870-1947
Partly-worked embroidery model for a pochette. Worked in cross stitch. Showing the border design and a central pattern of abstracted flowers and leaves. Guidelines sewn into fabric. Based on a des...
sampler
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
late 19th-mid 20th Century
Long length of linen with rectangles and lengths of drawn thread worked designs, worked in coloured floss silk threads and laid and couched floss silk embroidery threads, worked within a transfer de...
Figurative machine embroidered fabric
mid 20th Century
Mid-century machine embroidery in white on black crepe. The repeat design depicts roses and leaves, a female in a dress and a carriage and horse. It could be referencing Cinderella.
cushion cover sampler
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
1870-1947
Length of old gold coloured linen with embroidered design on one side. The design is of stylised vine leaves and grapes worked in double running and back stitch in black wool and white twisted silk th...
Winchester Designs Sheet XV
Blunt, Sybil
1932-1940
A drawn pointpaper design produced for the Broiderers of Winchester Cathedral by Sybil Blunt, who worked with Louisa Pesel. Referenced Sheet XV. The single motif organic design for needlepoint is of...