FINE NEEDLEWORK
HOBBY OF DISTINGUISHED
MEN
Out of 800 specimens in the exhibition of needlework, Londo.n, at Grosvenor Square, 50 are the work of men,, states an exchange. And much of .their/ : work, if not yet quite the equal in\ delicacy of women's best A^otrk, is highly promising. Needlework, especially embroidery 4 lis a hobby which has attracted a re-, markable number of distinguished»men f especially retired generals and colonels. i There is a fine chair cover by Lord! Gainford, the great coal and electricity magnate, who was chairman of the British Broadcasting Company for the first five years of its life.
Another chair cover is bjy Sir Harry Cordeaux, a former Governor of Uganda, St. Helena, and the Bahama Isles.
Another is by Lieutenant-Coloroel Guy Blewitt, D.5.0., a former M.F.H., who has used a hunting scene taken from an old sporting print in his -design.
There are striking needlework pictures1" by Brigadier-General J. J.. H. Nation—a former military attache; at Rome —two in petit-point.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 117, 20 May 1939, Page 19
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165FINE NEEDLEWORK Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 117, 20 May 1939, Page 19
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