About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 66. Chapters: Bayeux Tapestry, Sampler, Sashiko stitching, Assisi embroidery, Blackwork Embroidery, Canvas work, Quaker Tapestry, Drawn thread work, Hastings Embroidery, Crewel embroidery, Hardanger embroidery, Berlin wool work, Counted-thread embroidery, Ann Macbeth, Royal School of Needlework, Overlord embroidery, Bradford carpet, Needlepoint, New World Tapestry, Machine embroidery, Ukrainian embroidery, Bargello, Embroidery stitch, Mary Linwood, Day Joyce Sheet, Goldwork, Quillwork, Trianglepoint, Darning, Kasuti, The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul, Provencal quilts, Felbrigge Psalter, Chinese embroidery, Jacobean embroidery, Everlasting blossoms, Mountmellick embroidery, Embroidery Software Protection Coalition, Embroidery of India, Knotted stitch, Suzani textile, Mission patch, Esther Inglis, Plainweave, Gimp, Persian embroidery, Tapestry of Creation, Kantha, Stumpwork, Embroidery thread, Temari, Embroidered patch, Aida cloth, Cutwork, Doily, Embroiderers' Guild, Surface embroidery, Bead embroidery, Kaitag textiles, Embroiderer's Guild of America, Han Sang Soo Embroidery Museum, Brazilian embroidery, Shisha, Embroidery city, Candlewicking, Korean embroidery, Broderie perse, Vyshyvanka, Even-weave, Broderie Anglaise, Soutache, Vietnamese embroidery, Suzhou embroidery, Whitework embroidery, Bunka shishu, Biscornu, Orphrey, Applique lace. Excerpt: The Bayeux Tapestry (French: , IPA: , Norman: La telle du conquest) is a 0.5-by-68.38-metre (1.6 by 224.3 ft) long embroidered cloth - not an actual tapestry - which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England as well as the events of the invasion itself. The tapestry is annotated in Latin. It is exhibited in a special museum in Bayeux, Normandy called Musee de la Tapisserie de Bayeux. The earliest known written reference to the tapestry is a 1476 inventory...
