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Swanson, Margaret
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1872-1942
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Margaret Swanson was a former primary school teacher from Ayrshire who worked as Ann Macbeth’s assistant at Glasgow School of Art’s Needlework & Embroidery department between 1910 and 1913. Together, Macbeth and Swanson wrote “Educational Needlework” (1911) a practical manual of needlework skills with hand drawn diagrams to illustrate the techniques being taught. This complimented the teacher training course they developed introducing a carefully graded syllabus of needlework instruction for children from the age of six upwards.
Swanson went on to write two further teaching manuals, “Needlecraft in the School” in 1916 and “Needlecraft for Older Girls” in 1920.
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P918
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