December 4, 2024
At Long Last! English Medieval Embroidery by Christie – for All!
Well, this week, one of my Christmas Wishes of Old came true.
For years and years and years, I’ve longed for my own copy of Grace Christie’s monumental work of research, English Medieval Embroidery: A Brief Survey of English Embroidery Dating from the Beginning of the Tenth Century to the End of the Fourteenth, published in 1938.
This Massive Tome is pretty rare. I’ve been fortunate to spend some time with it in the Topeka Public Library’s rare book rooms, but it’s hard to have enough time with a book, comfortably, when you’re in a supervised library room, wearing white gloves and under the watchful eye of the librarian who apparently expects that you are going to do I-Don’t-Know-What with the book. Steal it? Ample as I am, I don’t think I could discretely stuff this book down my shirt. It’s Huge! (Uh, not that I would, even if I could…)
