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Embroidered Book Covers

February 17, 2010

17th century embroidered satin book with floral motif.

While researching book bindings for a project, I've been coming across these gorgeous embroidered book covers and bindings from the 16th and 17th century. Thought I'd make a blog post out of these exquisite works of art.. The original scans for the books are scattered throughout The British Library Database of Bookbindings. I've just selected, ...

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