Preface and Acknowledgements                                                       7

Foreword                                                                                      11

Introduction                                                                                   13

1. The Seventeenth Century                                                           14

2. Eighteenth Century Needlework Tools & Sewing Sets                24

3. Georgian Sewing Boxes                                                             36

4. The Palais Royal                                                                        46

5. Georgian Crafts                                                                         58

6. Needlework Tools — c.1750 to c.1840                                    80

7. Nineteenth Century Sewing Boxes and Work Tables                102

8. Nineteenth Century Sewing Sets                                               120

9. Victorian Sewing Tools                                                            138

10. Victorian Crafts                                                                     170

11. The Edwardian Era                                                                198

Glossary                                                                                      210

Bibliography                                                                                211

Index                                                                                           213

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