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A charming English cottage-craft book — over 50 original needlepoint designs drawn from the English countryside, with a dust jacket featuring a dreamy Victorian painting of a girl with a basket of kittens. Pure cottagecore on the shelf, and a working pattern book inside. SPECS - Title: English Countryside Embroidery — A Treasury of Over 50 Original Needlepoint Designs - Author: Stafford Whiteaker - Publisher: Bracken Books, England - Format: 4to hardcover with dust jacket, ~143 pp, color photo illustrations - Approximate weight: 1 lb 5 oz - Date: c. 1988 HISTORY Stafford Whiteaker's needlepoint treasuries — this one, plus "English Garden Embroidery" — collect original charted designs and motifs inspired by the English countryside: rosebuds, marigolds, honeysuckle, ripe cherries, crab apples, elderberries, waterlilies. The text is interwoven with country tales, songs, and poems, and the worked projects (cushions, chair seats, footstools, rugs) are shown throughout. A sweet, decorative