THE ATLAS OF WORLD EMBROIDERY: A GLOBAL EXPLORATION OF HERITAGE AND STYLES DUCK and other cultural practitioners offer

and other cultural practitioners offer personal perspectives in newly commissioned essays

The squirrel on the left is sweetly eating a nut

Peppered throughout the cookbook are excerpts from the Huntington Library's collection of rare herbal and botanical books from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries

Even succulent beginners can get involved in this low-maintenance gardening trend

Shelley and Keats come to the fore

THE ATLAS OF WORLD EMBROIDERY: A GLOBAL EXPLORATION OF HERITAGE AND STYLES DUCK and other cultural practitioners offerEmbroidery is one of the worlds most widely shared forms of creative expressionand one of its most varied and diverse. It can be found in every region, yet its visual languages, themes, and techniques vary greatly: some are marked by unique styles and others show influences from neighboring cultures. The Atlas of World Embroidery examines many distinctive embroidery styles and traditions found across the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and