NOW PLY NEEDLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 73, 28 March 1939, Page 12

NOW PLY NEEDLE.

HOBBY OF VETERANS. i EXHIBITS BY FAMOUS SOLDIERS. ! RETIRED GENERALS' EMBROIDERY \ (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, February 24. Out of 800 specimens in the exhibition of needlework, London, at Grosvenor Square, 50 are the work of men. And much of their work, if not yet quite the equal in delicacy of women's best work, is highly promising. Needlework, especially embroidery, is a hobby which has attracted a remarkable number of distinguished men. especially retired generals and colonels. There is a fine chair-cover by Lord Gainford, the groat coal and electricity magnate, who was chairman of the British Broadcasting Company for the first five years of its life. Another chair-cover is by Sir Harry Cordeaux, a former Governor of Uganda, St. Helena, and the Bahama Isles. Another is by Lieutenant-Colonel Guy Blewitt. D.5.0., a former M.F.H. who has used a hunting scene taken from an old sporting print in his design. There are striking needlework pictures by Brigadier-Oeneral -T. .1. H. Nation — a former military attache in Koine — two in petit-point. There is a chessboard worked 'in cross-stitch, by Brigadier-Oeiieral F. H. Burnell-Nugent, who was in the retreat from Mons and commanded the Tientsin area.