📚 Embroidery

Ornament stitched: samplers, crewelwork, canvas work, and the technique books that recorded them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject embroidery in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Embroidery and tapestry weaving	Grace Christie	1906	34
	Samplers and stitches	Grace Christie	1920	24
	Church needlework	Hinda M. Hands	1905	17
	Art in needlework	Lewis Foreman Day	1900	13
	English garden embroidery	Stafford Whiteaker	1986	9
	Samplers & tapestry embroideries	Marcus Bourne Huish	1900	7
	The stitches of creative embroidery	Jacqueline Enthoven	1964	7
	The complete stitch encyclopedia	Jan Eaton	1986	7
	Jacobean embroidery	Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam	1912	6
	Dictionary of embroidery stitches	Thomas, Mary	1934	6
	Pulled thread	Moyra McNeill	1971	6
	Metal thread embroidery	Jane Lemon	1987	6
	Ecclesiastical embroidery	Beryl Dean	1958	5
	The basic stitches of embroidery	N. Victoria Wade	1960	5
	Creative canvas embroidery	Bucky King	1963	5
	Metal thread embroidery	Barbara Dawson	1968	5
	English embroidery	Albert Frank Kendrick	1905	4
	English embroidery	A. F. Kendrick	1905	4
	Embroidery	W. G. Paulson Townsend	1907	4
	An embroidery book	Anne Knox Arthur	1920	4
	Design in embroidery	Kathleen Whyte	1969	4
	Encyclopedia of Embroidery Stitches, Including Crewel	Marion Nichols	1974	4
	A world of embroidery	Mary Gostelow	1975	4
	Embroidery	Mary Gostelow	1977	4
	The subversive stitch	Rozsika Parker	1984	4
	Drawing and design for embroidery	Richard Box	1988	4
	The techniques of Indian embroidery	Anne Morrell	1994	4
	An introduction to embroidery	Anna Griffiths	1995	4
	Briggs & Co.'s patent transferring papers	Briggs & Co.	1880	3
	Jacobean crewel work and traditional designs	Penelope	1900	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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