Aurora silk yarn

I'm currently knitting with this gorgeous yarn

Detail of knitted baby cardigan

Detail of knitted baby cardigan, originally uploaded by MachteldEmbroidery.

fragment of 14th century embroidery

DSC02788, originally uploaded by racaire.

Red flowers

14/365: jan-14-10, originally uploaded by parallelbotany.

Red flowers, part II

Gorgeous embroidery + image by Berlin's Whimsy

Florence Caulfield and the Illustrated needlework book

Florence in silk embroidered dress, ca 1910

One of her embroidery designs (more can be found here.)
All images from the Victoria and Albert Museum

Art in needlework, a book about embroidery

Image from:

Art in needlework

a book about embroidery

by Lewis Foreman Day
Published in 1900, B.T. Batsford (London)

downloadable here

Cable and lace knitted throw from favecrafts.com

Find the pattern here.
image from favecrafts.com