English embroidery and textile historian (1909–2002)
Margaret Swain
MBE
Born
Margaret Helen Hart
(1909-05-13)13 May 1909
Parbold, Lancashire, England
Died
27 July 2002(2002-07-27) (aged 93)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Occupation(s)
Embroidery and textile historian
Years active
1947–1994
Spouse
R. H. A. Swain
(m. 1937; died 1981)
Children
3
Family
Fiona Woolf (daughter)
Margaret Helen SwainMBE (néeHart; 13 May 1909 – 27 July 2002) was an English embroidery and textile historian. Trained as a nurse in London, she began a career as a historian after noticing no history about Ayrshire whitework embroidery in books following an exhibition at the Signet Library which she visited. Swain's research on the subject resulted in the publication of several books, she held two exhibitions, and wrote about embroidery, household textiles and tapestries in museum journals, magazines and newspapers. She was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1981. A pencil portrait of Swain was made by Elizabeth Blackadder and a collection of papers and objects related to her career are stored at National Museums Scotland.
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that French whitework is usually worked on cambric rather than muslin. MargaretSwain, Ayrshire and Other Whitework (Shire Publications, 2001), p. 15. Anthony...
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Michael Meighan, Glasgow: A History (Amberley Publishing, 2013), p. 21. MargaretSwain, Scottish Embroidery: Medieval to Modern (BT Batsford, 1986), p. 95...
Andersson and Ding Wenjiang." In: Stevan Harrell, Charles McKhann, MargaretSwain and Denise M. Glover, eds., _Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands...
Embroidered with White (Heather Toomer Antique Lace, 2008), p. 106. MargaretSwain, Ayrshire and Other Whitework (Shire Publications, 2001), p. 15. Gail...
1980-1983) vol. 4, pp. 1812-19. Needlework of Mary Queen of Scots, by MargaretSwain, published in 1973, ISBN 0 442 29962 1 Pliny the Elder, Natural History...
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Michael Meighan, Glasgow: A History (Amberley Publishing, 2013), p. 47. MargaretSwain, Scottish Embroidery: Medieval to Modern (BT Batsford, 1986), p. 95...
Andersson and Ding Wenjiang." In: Stevan Harrell, Charles McKhann, MargaretSwain and Denise M. Glover, eds., _Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands...
(Edinburgh: SRS, 1929), p. 51. Margaret Sanderson, Mary Stewart's People (Mercat Press: Edinburgh, 1987), p. 86. MargaretSwain, Scottish Embroidery: Medieval...
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