This is the first scholarly examination of the United States' modern embroidery movement, as it was established and developed during the first half of the twentieth century by two key artists, Marguerite Zorach and Georgiana Brown Harbeson. The Modern Embroidery Movement considers the arguments presented by these pioneering women and their collaborators for embroidery to be accepted as art. It looks at key exhibitions in which their embroideries were displayed, and the reception of these embroideries by contemporary critics. The book is the first to provide close and detailed analysis of individual works created by Zorach and Brown Harbeson. It considers the historical conditions which marginalised women's embroidery, and the factors which worked against these advocates in promoting their work. Overall, the book contributes to the history of craft, art and women's rights, by documenting a little-acknowledged yet historically significant embroidery movement, and positioning this movement in dialogue with modern art.