Art in Needlework: Embroidery, by Lewis Day and Mary Buckle, Part 1
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
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🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Let's stitch our way to sleep with this handbook to the intricacies of embroidery. We'll work our way through some basic stitches, learn a bit of history, and admire the art of craft.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime. |
| 0:08.0 | I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep. |
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| 1:24.0 | Now, let's read and relax. |
| 1:29.5 | Find a comfortable spot. Adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly. And off we go. |
| 1:50.0 | Tonight let's relax with a little bit about the craft world. |
| 1:55.0 | With art in needlework, a book about embroidery by Louis F Day, |
| 2:02.0 | author of Windows, Alphabets, Nature in Ornament, and other textbooks of |
| 2:09.4 | Ornamental Design, and Mary Buckle. |
| 2:14.0 | First published in 1900 by BT Battsford, 94 High Holborn, London. |
| 2:22.0 | Let's begin. Preface. Embroidery may be looked at from more points of |
| 2:31.4 | view than it would be possible in a book like this to take up seriously. |
| 2:36.7 | Merely to hover around the subject and glance casually at it would serve no useful purpose. It may be as well therefore to define our |
| 2:47.6 | standpoint. We look at the art from its practical side, not of course neglecting the artistic for the practical |
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