Moira Thunder Livres

This beautiful book illustrates the highlights of the fine collection of designs for embroidery at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Focusing on designs for fashion, accessories, and furnishings, it includes gowns, jackets, bags, collars, children’s clothing, saddle pouches, and designs for home furnishing as well as poignant embroidery on love and intimacy. Featuring exquisite designs from the Italian Renaissance to the embroidery pat­terns of Morris & Co. and 20th-century Russian creations, this book provides a wealth of practical information and inspiration for designers and embroiderers.

This attractive series reveals the V&A;'s spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high resolution images. Spitalfields Silks displays delightful floral designs alongside quirky, stikingly modern silks, all produced in eighteenth-century London.