The Victoria & Albert Museum's Textile Collection: Embroidery in Britain from 1200 to 1750

by Donald King, Santina Levey

The Victoria & Albert Museum's Textile Embroidery in Britain from 1200 to 1750 by Donald King and Santina Levey. 1993 paperback published by Canopy Books, a Division of Abbeville Press, Inc. Stated First Edition.

Genres: Nonfiction, Art

112 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1933

About the author

Art historian and textiles expert for the V&A.

During World War II, King served with the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a mechanic. Due to his proficiency in French, German, and Latin, he was transferred to the Intelligence Service of the Air Ministry, participating in the Murmansk convoys and the invasion of Sicily. He later became one of the so-called "Monument Men".

After the war he attended the Courtauld Institute of Art, where he studied Art History. He joined the Victoria and Albert Museum staff in 1949 and remained there for nearly 3 decades, being promoted in 1972 to Keeper of Textiles.

King was a member of the Oriental Rug and Textile Society of Great Britain, the Early Textiles Study Group, and the first President of the Medieval Dress and Textile Society.