English Countryside Embroidery – A Treasury of Over 50 Original Needlepoint Designs –

“… The accompanying text, with its tales, songs and poems of country life has a delightful informality that emphasizes the role of needlepoint as a source of relaxing pleasure and practical entertainment. Stafford Whiteaker underlines this message of enjoyment by basing some designs on the pursuits of a Victorian afternoon in the country. Here are found embroidery repeats of Victorian jewels, coloured garlands, fish swimming in a garden pond, fancy patterns of marbled papers and the mythical creatures of heraldry. …”