Author: Renate FernauPublisher:
ISBN: 9781891656217
Category : Embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Schwalm Embroidery
Author: Christine BishopPublisher: Sally Milner Pub
ISBN: 9781863512206
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Discover the classic beauty of Schwalm embroidery, with its surface stitches, pulled fabric, drawn thread, needlelace, and needleweaving. Featuring traditional design elements (tulips, flowers, pine cones, fruit, and doves), the projects in this unique, fully illustrated collection include table linens, a pincushion with matching needlecase, a sampler, and more. With a stitch glossary and designs suitable for beginners as well as those with experience in Schwalm.
Portuguese Whitework
Author: Yvette StantonPublisher: Vetty
ISBN: 9780975767757
Category : Embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Features needlework from Guimaraes in northern Portugal. This title helps you to learn all you need to know to create your own masterpieces and heirlooms with the step-by-step instructions. It includes a range of projects, large and small, for beginners through to advanced stitchers.
Schwalm Embroidery Pattern Book
Author: Edith BloecherPublisher:
ISBN: 9781977831378
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
With this wonderful white embroidery technique one can embroider charming country house cushions and tablecloths. But it is an embroidery for people with inner calm and many time. One embroiders on fine countable linen and must pull threads out of the fabric. So it is a beautiful challenge for experienced embroiderers. In my book I show with a lot of pictures the basic technique and more than 70 beautiful and useful filling stitches. There is a big number of filling stitches, but nevertheless, one uses the same again. And I show these popular patterns with exact instructions. Schwalm embroidery is often combined with darning hemstitches. In this book are the instructions of 10 needleweaving hems + peahole hem. The book is supplemented with some patterns of cushions. In addition, I give tips how to come from the pillow pattern to a pattern for a tablecloth and how to design himselve a Schwalm pattern. I also show 3 beautiful pillow closures for country houme pillows. And I use the filling stitches to cover buttons. This book has 104 pages full of ideas. Inside it is black / white because it is a whitework embroidery and needs no color. And the price of the book is much more positive. Now is the time to try out Schwalm embroidery, enjoy it. You got questions, come to me. Internet address and telephone number is in the book.
Whitework Inspirations
Author: Inspirations StudioPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1782218327
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
8 fabulously beautiful whitework embroideries to stitch, from some of the world's most talented designers and the world's leading embroidery magazine. Whitework embroidery traditionally features beautifully intricate designs using white thread on white background fabric, examples of which can be found in many cultures across the world. Without the addition of colour, the fabric surface is ornamented with high-relief stitching, cutting, pulling or withdrawing threads with some styles utilizing all these techniques. Whitework Inspirations highlights the very best whitework has to offer in both design and technique. Featuring talented embroidery designers Kim Beamish, Deborah Love, Judy Stephenson, Christine P. Bishop, Susan O'Connor, Patricia Girolami and Luzine Happel, this special collection, including a tablecloth, table mats and sachets, has been curated into one publication. With 8 stunning whitework projects to make, there are clear step-by-step instructions, pullout patterns, a stitch guide and all the information you need to stitch them. Discover the origins, stitches, techniques and designs that are uniquely whitework, and learn how to make your own beautiful works of art.
Author: Tomoko TorimaruOrganic Embroidery
Author: Meredith WoolnoughPublisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764356131
Category : Embroidery, Machine
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Renowned textile artist Meredith Woolnough creates replicas of nature using a delicate system of tiny stitches. Her artwork is breathtaking, and now for the first time Woolnough offers crafters and fiberartists a lesson in how to use the "organic embroidery" technique. Look behind the scenes of her art process, from the initialfieldwork sketching and research that inspires her designs, to theproduction of her ethereal embroidered sculptures. She guides you through 12 creativity-prompting activities to help you begin your own mastery of this method. As you learn to find your desired shape or pattern in nature, from sources like leaves, shells, or coral, then use your sewing machine to turn bits into exquisite art. You'll also enjoy dozens of inspirational photos of Woolnough's ownart pieces. Woolnough's instructions offer simple but highlyversatile techniques, and allow you space for your own creative approach
Author: Carolyn PearceTraditional Icelandic Embroidery
Author: Elsa E. GuðjónssonPublisher: University of Iceland Press
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
"Traditional Icelandic Embroidery has been out of print for almost a decade and is now available in revised edition. The main text contains a survey of the history of Icelandic traditional embroidery from the earliest times to the middle of the nineteenth century, emphasizing extant embroideries preserved in the National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavik. Included are fifty-four photographs in full color of embroideries and twenty-four pages of original patterns, all in the National Museum of Iceland, and an extensive updated bibliography of relevant books and articles. Also included are eight pages with stitch diagrams and descriptions of how to work the various techniques used in the embroideries, and twenty-four plates of traditional Icelandic squared embroidery designs.
Embroidered Landscapes Hand Embroidery
Author: Judy WilfordPublisher: Milner Craft Series
ISBN: 9781863514743
Category : Embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Design and create realistic hand-embroidered landscapes, from coastlines to deserts, escarpments to plains. Judy Wilford's stunning process combines different genres, textiles, traditional stitches, and embroidery styles. Part 1 covers the materials and equipment, lays out a simple landscape, and demonstrates background layering and surface stitching. The second section contains a range of projects, each developing and extending the various techniques.
