Tudor Textiles

This book is well researched (great bibliography) and would make an excellent addition to the library of any history enthusiast or historical costumer looking for high quality photos of original textiles. The pictures allow for the embroidery stitches or weave to be clearly seen. The author does an excellent job of providing context for each item.

fabulous book, well written, very detailed and well worth the price.

If one is a fan of Tudor history, the textiles open up a whole other important chapter that dovetails with everything else. It's a wonderful and beautiful book and great history.

Purchased this as a birthday gift for a friend, and I was not disappointed. Lots of color pictures, my friend is going to love the book, may purchase a second one for me

Good history of textiles of that era

Great book, and my daughter loved it.

I read this from cover to cover and learned a great deal. Incredible research has been pulled together in a readable format. I learned a lot about the needlework of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. While I understand another reviewer's complaint about more paintings than needlework pictured in the book, I suspect that is due to the lack of surviving examples. I would have liked it if the author had translated the Old English and foreign titles, but otherwise I found the book helpful and of interest. I never understood the value of tapestries to the time of Henry VII, Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I before I read this book. The images helped explain the value of this. While I would have preferred more information on the embroideries, this is a very good overall book about Tudor Textiles and after all that was the title.

I had hoped this book would be a catalog of Tudor textiles but it was not. It was more of a history and not written very well.