author
A. F. Morris Hands
Best known for a classic early 20th-century book on Jacobean embroidery, this writer helped preserve historic needlework traditions in a way that still appeals to modern makers and textile enthusiasts.
1 Audiobook
Jacobean Embroidery: Its Forms and Fillings, Including Late Tudor
by Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam, A. F. Morris Hands
About the author
A. F. Morris Hands is known today as the co-author of Jacobean Embroidery: Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor, a richly illustrated study first published in 1912. The book was written with Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam and has remained the main work reliably associated with this name in major public-domain and bookseller records.
Within that volume, Morris Hands is specifically credited with the introductory history, suggesting a strong role in explaining the background and development of the embroidery tradition as well as helping frame the book's historical approach. The work focuses on Jacobean and late Tudor embroidery, with examples drawn from historic textiles and decorative furnishings.
Little biographical information about Morris Hands appears to be readily confirmed from the sources I found, so it is safest to remember the author through this surviving contribution: a practical, visually engaging record of English embroidery that has outlived its own era and continues to be reprinted, digitized, and read.