The little-known art of Berlin Work was once the most commonly practiced art form among European women.
Pictorial Embroidery in England is the first academic study of both pictorial Berlin Work and its precursor, needlepainting, exploring their cultural status in the 18th and 19th centuries.
From Enlightenment practices of copying to the development of an industrial aesthetic and the making of the modern amateur, Berlin Work developed as an official knowledge associated with notion.
Bloomsbury Visual Arts Pictorial embroidery in england: a critical history of needlepainting and berlin work, paperback/rosika desnoyers
