Lending

James Harvey & Dorrwin Buck Jones

There are lots of books on needlework designs but none as carefully researched and passionately and intelligently written as this one. Ms Lantz has studied patterns wherever she could find them all around the world, on buildings, on pavements, on pictures in museums, on textile, wood, ceramics, christian and islamic. She has patiently collected them, and designer Maggie Lane has turned the patterns into diagrams. It is a nearly inexhaustible mine of ideas. In my opinion there is no other book on the subject to compare with it. The author can well apply to her own work the last lines of a XVI° century French poem which she translates:
Prince, I declare in good faith
That my task was accomplished with minute care
"For the benefit" as we have heard recited,
"Of all who work with the needle".