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Embroidery:

Foris, Maria and Andreas . SUSANN FOLK CROSS-STITCH CHARTS
Nuremberg 1950 Sebaldus. A beautiful collection of 278 designs from the countries along the Danube. Embroidery patterns. In English. Sq,8vo., 7pp., fully illustrated with black and red illustrations, hardcover. Owner signed. A few pencil notations in margin. Good, inner hinges cracked, no DJ. (a22071)
$29.00 Maslov, G.S. . ORNAMENT RUSSKOY NARODNIY VISHIVKII KAK ISTORICHESKO-ETNOGRAFICHESKIKH ISTOCHNIK (DESIGN OF RUSSIAN FOLK EMBROIDERY AS A HISTORICAL-ETHNOGRAPHIC SOURCE)
Moscow 1978. In Russian. Hardcover Square octavo, 205pp., illustrated, a few in color, cloth. VG, no DJ. (a37339)
$75.00 Snook, Barbara . EMBROIDERY DESIGNS FROM PRE-COLUMBIAN ART
NY 1975 1st Scribners. Hardcover 4to., 135pp., monochrome and color illustrations, cloth. Fine in VG DJ. (a5232)
$29.00 Niedner, Marie . HARDANGER STICKEREI BAND 16
Leipzig 1915 funfte auflage. Amazing embroidery designs. In German. Octavo, 58pp., 8pp., photo illustrations, large folded pattern on pink paper laid in, original wraps. Good , light wear. (a68449)
$35.00Huicholes. LOS HUICHOLES
Mexico 1954 Museo Nacional de Artes 7. Folk craft and folk art of this Mexican Indian group. In Spanish. 12mo., 78pp., illustrations, 5 foldout plates of embroidery patterns, original wraps. VG, light wear. (a71532)
$39.00 Seventeenth Century Devotional Manuscript in Metallic Embroidered Binding . IN DEPOSITIONE SS. SACRAMENTI - SEVENTEENTH CENTURY DEVOTIONAL MANUSCRIPT
Hardcover with unusual fully embroidered cover using metallic thread. Book measures 11-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches; 29.5 x 21 cm. no date c. 1650. In Latin 54 pages, (two leaves are blank), fully manuscript with rouged fore-edges. Full page original drawing of radiant chalice done in yellow, tan end gray inks. Very high quality drawing. Text is in black and grey ink with red capitals and some lines of writing in red ink also. Internally book is VG with light wear. Cover is only Fairly Good with embroidery faded to various shades of faintly purple grey on front panel. Rear panel has much gilt tone remaining in the embroidery thread with an area of pale blue surround with the word PAX in gilt. A few tiny gilt sequins are sewn in the decoration also. The embrodery is worn but still mostly intact. Cloth is tearing along spine. Rare. (a85942)
$2700.00