Introduction

With Art in Needlework, a book about embroidery by Lewis F. Day and Mary Buckle. Just published in 1900 by BT Batsford, 94 High Holborn, London. Embroidery may be looked at from more points of view than it would be possible in a book like this to take up seriously. The custom has been, since women learnt to kill time with the needle, to think of embroidery too much as an idol accomplishment. It is more than that. At the very least, it is a handicraft. At the best it is an art. This contention may be to take it rather seriously, but if one is steamed it less