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Needlepoint for Everyone by Mary Brooks Picken & Doris White
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The word "Comprehensive" is used often to descibe books that are not really comprehensive but this book is and then some. I would recommend this book to beginners who are serious about learning needlepoint.

As well as practical needlepoint instruction and encyclopedic information the authors highlight examples of Needlepoint from places as diverse as Gracie mansion, home of New York's Mayor, Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts, Boscobel on the Hudson, Mount Vernon, Williamsburg, Virginia and Blair House in Washington DC.

The chapters include
Our Heritage, with the above mentioned examples
Needlepoint Essentials
Design & Color
Canvas Stitches
Left Handed?
Blocking, Mounting & Finishing
Rehabiliation & Recreational Therapy (I have to go look at that one)
Interior Design
Fashion Accessories
House & Home
Samplers, Mottos & Monograms
Devotionals (this is rare, a full chapter on Church & Synagogue Needlepoint)
Teaching
For Children
Men & Needlepoint
The Hobbyist & The Collector
Advertising & Publicity Via needlepoint
Museum Treasures
Cutting & Sewing Fashion Accessories
Symbolism
Bibliography
National Directory of Art Needlework Shops (circa 1970)
Acknowledgements & Index

Whew! See what I mean by comprehensive?

The "rehabilitation" chapter is about manual dexterity, the recreational is about the benefits of needlepoint for confined (due to health) people.

But there is, I found, a Woman's Prison in Ohio that is doing a Rehab & Training Needlepoint project.

This is indeed a complex book, 216 pages filed with pictures and information.

Needlepoint for Everyone is a hardcover book published by Harper & Row in 1970. Besides Mary Brooks Picken & Doris White there is a title page credit to Clare Valentine, as well.



The beautoful dust jacket is sadly missing from this copy of the book. Otherwise it is in good condition. There is a small "bump" on the bottom right of the hard cover, it is hidden behind the lip of my easel. The pages inside are somewhat yellowed from age but there is no foxing and the spine is good.



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The New York Times Book of Needlepoint by Elaine Slater
 
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First Printing: The New Needlepoint: Stitches and Designs by Margaret Boyles
 
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