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A. F. Morris Hands

Best known as the co-author of a classic 1912 guide to historic needlework, this writer helped bring Jacobean embroidery to a wider audience. The surviving record is slim, but the book remains a valued source for readers interested in traditional English embroidery.

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Jacobean Embroidery: Its Forms and Fillings, Including Late Tudor

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 for co-authoring Jacobean Embroidery: Its Forms and Fillings, Including Late Tudor with Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam. The book was published in London in 1912 and has stayed in circulation through later reprints and digital editions.

Within that volume, Morris Hands is specifically credited with the introductory history, helping frame the development of Jacobean and late Tudor embroidery for readers. The work combines historical commentary with examples, plates, and practical design study, which is a big reason it has continued to interest embroidery students, textile historians, and makers.

Beyond this book, reliable biographical details about Morris Hands are hard to confirm from the sources found here. Even so, the lasting presence of Jacobean Embroidery suggests an author whose contribution has outlived the era in which the book was first published.