Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Books: Encyclopedia of needlework by Th De Dillmot





This book is the first ever published Encyclopedia of needlework. This is the revised and enlarged edition and was printed in c1910, the original was printed in 1886. 




Thérèse de Dillmont

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Thérèse de Dillmont
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Born10 October 1846
Wiener Neustadt
Died22 May 1890 (aged 43)
NationalityAustrian
Spouse(s)Joseph Scheuermann
Thérèse de Dillmont (10 October 1846 – 22 May 1890) was an Austrian needleworker and writer. Dillmont's Encyclopedia of Needlework (1886) has been translated into 17 languages.[1] She owned a string of shops in European capitals and she was "one of the most important pioneers in the international and multicultural enterprise of hobby needlework in the late nineteenth century