Plain & Fancy: American Women and Their Needlework, 1700-1850 |
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advertised American needlework appliquéd areas background fabric backstitches became Berlin boarding schools Bobbin lace Boston buttonhole stitch candlewick canvas canvas-work Chester County clothing colonial color Connecticut cotton crewel embroidery crewel yarns crewelwork cross-stitch darning daughter decorative diary DMMC dress eighteenth century Eliza Southgate Elizabeth Drinker embroidered embroidery stitch England example fancy needlework fashionable female Figure flowers French knots Gazette girls handmade History household husband indentured Irish stitch John knitting lace Ladies Magazine layers linen Magazine Marseilles quilting Mary Massachusetts Moravian mother mourning pictures needle needlework pictures nineteenth century painted pattern Pennsylvania petticoats Philadelphia pieced quilt plain sewing plain-woven Plate pocketbook popular printed probably Queen's stitch quilt Roumanian couching running stitch sampler Samuel Sewall Sarah Emery satin stitch Sewall silk yarns social tambour teacher technique tent stitch thread usually Victorian whip whipstitch wife Winterthur Museum woman women wool wrote York young ladies