Abstract
This article presents various examples of embroidery embellishments to be found in handcrafted books of friendship (album amicorum) from the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries that are currently held at Poznań University Library. Techniques of handcraft embroidery as well as their craftsmanship and artistic value are discussed along with a wider discussion on the significance of the mentioned examples for the history of amateur embroidery developed in Polish lands. The article also attempts to draw attention of the reader to the art of embroidery of the time that was of purely amateurish character and points at many manifestations of a particular tendency to copy and repeat certain patterns which distinguished them as typical for the epoch.References
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