eBooks

Do you like old books on needlework? This section contains links to eBooks on needlework or embroidery which are out of copyright and available free on the Internet. Some of the books are scanned from the original and others are in text format. Many of the books are available in multiple formats (text, html, pdf, etc.) and can be downloaded to your PC. The books in text format can be searched. The original pictures and illustrations are included in each eBook. Books are available from the following sources:

  • Project Guttenbug - http://www.gutenberg.org
    Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.

  • Internet Archive - http://www.archive.org (click on Texts)
    Internet Archive is a non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Try the flip book format which shows a scanned copy of the original book, page by page and the text can be searched!

  • The Emory Women Writers Resource Project - http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/wwrp/index.html
    The Emory Women Writers Resource Project is a collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century.
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1 American Samplers by Ethel Stanwood Bolton (1921)
Provided by Internet Archive
2 Art in Needlework by Lewis Foreman Day (1900)
Provided by Internet Archive
3 Beeton's Book of Needlework by Isabella Beeton (1870)
Provided by Project Gutenberg
4 Embroidery : or, The Craft of the Needle by W. G. Paulson Townsend (1907)
Provided by Internet Archive
5 Embroidery and Lace by Ernest Lefébure (1888)
Provided by Internet Archive. Extended title: Embroidery and lace; their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors, and general readers
6 Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving by Grace Christie (1912)
Provided by Project Gutenberg
7 Embroidery Stitches by Mary Elizabeth McNamara Wilkinson (1912)
Provided by Internet Archive
8 Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont
Provided by Project Gutenberg
9 English Embroidery by Albert Frank Kendrick (1913)
Provided by Internet Archive
10 Handbook of Embroidery by L. Higgin (1880)
Provided by Project Gutenberg
11 Handicraft for Girls by McGlauflin (1910)
Provided by Google Books
12 Jacobean Embroidery by Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam (1912)
Provided by Internet Archive. Extended title:
Jacobean Embroidery, its forms and fillings including late Tudor
13 Samplers & Tapestry Embroideries by Marcus Bourne Hulsh (1913)
Provided by Internet Archive
14 School needlework by Hapgood (1892)
Provided by Google Books
15 The Development of Embroidery in America by Candace Wheeler (1921)
Provided by Internet Archive
16 The Gentlewoman's Companion: or, A Guide to the Female Sex By Hannah Woolley (1675)
Provided by the Emory Women Writers Resource Project. Although this book is not about needlework, it provides insight into what a woman's life was like in the 17th century.
17 The Hand-book of Needlework by Lambert (1842)
Provided by Google Books
18 The History of English Secular Embroidery by Margaret Jourdain (1912)
Provided by Google books
19 The illuminated ladies' book of useful and ornamental needlework by Henry Owen (1844)
Provided by Google Books
20 The Practical Book of Early American Arts and Crafts by Donaldson (1916)
Provided by Google Books
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