Needlework As Art
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Needlework As Art is a book by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust Alford. The writer says that painting is the art of colour, sculpture is that of form, and embroidery is the art of clothing forms. Some writers regard needlework as a branch of painting, but the writer says, "I cannot endorse this classification." According to Semper, needlework is the mother-art of sculpture and painting, instead of being the offspring of either or both, as others have maintained.
The art of needlework reached its climax long ago, and is now very old. A border has kneeling gazelles, each with a pink Abyssinian lotus blossom hanging to its collar. A piece of Egyptian application, from the Museum at Turin, is a pretty leaf pattern cut out in red stuff, laid on a white ground.
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