Bibliography of some useful
books about
costume embroidery

Bossert, Helmuth
Th., Folk Art of Europe,
Rizzoli, 1990.
Dean, Beryl, Embroidery in Religion
and Ceremonial, BT
Batsford Limited, 1981
Hart, Avril and North, Susan, Historical
Fashion in Detail: The 17th and 18th Centuries,
V&A Publications, 1998
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Heavens'
Embroidered Cloths: One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles,
Urban Council of Hong Kong, 1995
Houston, Mary G., Medieval Costume
in England and France: The 13th, 14th and 15th Centuries,
Dover, an 1996 republication of a 1939 ed.
Irwin, John, The Kashmir Shawl,
Her Majesty's Stationery Office,
1974
Maeder, Edward, editor, An Elegant
Art: Fashion & Fantasy in the Eighteenth Century, Los
Angeles County Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983
Marshall, Sheila, Elizabethan Needlework
Accessories, Georgeson Publishing
Ltd., 1998
Nehring, Nancy, 50 Heirloom Buttons
to Make, Taunton Press, 1996
O, Keefe, Linda, Shoes,
Workman Publishing, 1996.
Rothstein, Natalie (Ed.), Four Hundred
Years of Fashion, Victoria and
Albert Museum, 1984
Sayer, Chloë, Mexican Textiles,
British Museum Publications Ltd., 1985
Szeto, Naomi Yin-Yin and Garrett, Valery M., Children
of the Gods: Dress and Symbolism in China,
Urban Council of Hong Kong, 1990

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