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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;acvintage, post: 4409170, member: 16144&quot;]This was a fun bit of research for me so thought I would provide an update. </p><p><br /></p><p>Therese de Dillmont offered a &quot;window into the past&quot; with her cross stitch designs.&nbsp; Many of her designs centered around the human form and the relationship between youth and old age - School teachers with students, father with daughter, mother with son, sisters holding hands.</p><p><br /></p><p>wikipedia:</p><p>&quot;Thérèse de Dillmont (10 October 1846 – 22 May 1890) was an Austrian needleworker and writer. Dillmont&#039;s Encyclopedia of Needlework (1886) has been translated into 17 languages.[1] She owned a string of shops in European capitals and she was &quot;one of the most important pioneers in the international and multicultural enterprise of hobby needlework in the late nineteenth century.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dillmont&#039;s name was an asset to the DMC company and they continued to publish books under her name after her death...&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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