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A. F. Morris Hands
Best known as the co-author of a classic 1912 guide to Jacobean embroidery, this writer helped preserve traditional needlework techniques for later generations. Their work still appeals to readers who love historic craft, pattern, and design.
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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 from the 1912 book Jacobean Embroidery: Its Forms and Fillings, Including Late Tudor, written with Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam. In that volume, Morris Hands contributed the introductory history and helped shape a practical, example-rich guide to traditional English embroidery.
The book focuses on Jacobean and late Tudor needlework, with attention to historic examples, stitches, fillings, and decorative motifs. Because the work has been preserved and reissued through sources such as Project Gutenberg and later reprints, it has continued to reach embroiderers, textile enthusiasts, and readers interested in decorative arts.
Reliable biographical details about Morris Hands appear to be scarce in the sources I could confirm, so a fuller personal profile is hard to give with confidence. What can be said is that this name remains closely associated with one enduring textile reference work from the early 20th century.