Needle-crafts from a Victorian Workbasket

Author: Moira Allen
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500181550
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Victorian ladies loved to surround themselves with beautiful things - and to create beautiful things. Now, you can recreate some of these fabulous Victorian designs! This collection of over 200 Victorian needlework projects offers something for every needlewoman (or needleperson). No matter what needle-craft is your "cup of tea" - embroidery, needlepoint, knitting, crochet, or even lace-work -you'll find an array of delightful designs that can be recreated "as is" or adapted to modern use. These projects are drawn from the pages of the immensely popular British women's magazine, The Girl's Own Paper, from 1880-1890, and offer all the information you'll need to work the design yourself. This unique collection is lavishly illustrated and will provide today's crafter with hours of inspiration!

Victorian Style Needlecrafts

Author: Better Homes and Gardens
Publisher: Better Homes and Gardens Books
ISBN: 9780696019487
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
For the crafter with an interest in Victorian-style decorating, this book includes 78 projects for the crocheter, cross-stitcher, embroiderer, knitter, needlepointer, and quilter. Clear and concise instructions for all skill levels are included. Full-color photography enhances each project.

Victorian Crochet

Author: Weldon and Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Victorian Needlework

Author: Flora Klickmann
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486421544
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
This vintage guide to the intricacies of Victorian needlecraft features step-by-step instructions for mastering an array of techniques and patterns. Featured projects include Bulgarian, Catalan, Hungarian, and Baro embroidery; a lesson in netting; hemstitching; making fringes; Berlin wool-work; Rhodes embroidery and punched work; reticella lace; and beads and beadwork. Approximately 87 black-and-white illustrations.

Victorian Needlework

Author: Kathryn Ledbetter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313386617
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201

Book Description
Marrying two exceptionally popular topics—needlework and women's history—this book provides an authoritative yet entertaining discussion of the diversity and importance of needlework in Victorian women's lives. Victorian Needlework explores these ubiquitous pastimes—their practice and their meaning in women's lives. Covering the period from 1837–1901, the book looks specifically at the crafts themselves examining quilting, embroidery, crochet, knitting, and more. It discusses required skills and the techniques women used as well as the technological innovations that influenced needlework during this period of rapid industrialization. This book is unique in its comprehensive treatment of the topic ranging across class, time, and technique. Readers will learn what needlework meant to "ladies," for whom it was a hobby reflecting refinement and femininity, and discover what such skills could mean as a "suitable" way for a woman to make a living, often through grueling labor. Such insights are illustrated throughout with examples from women's periodicals, needlework guides, pattern books, and personal memoirs that bring the period to life for the modern reader.

Miniature Needle Painting Embroidery

Author: Trish Burr
Publisher: Milner Craft (Paperback)
ISBN: 9781863514705
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Annotation. Trish has always been fascinated by miniature art and for years has had a yen to try and embroider smaller pieces. There is something so endearing about little paintings with all the detail and form of a larger piece, not to mention the fact that they are much quicker to stitch! Here she has compiled fresh and appealing designs that depict the pretty, romantic illustrations typical of the Victorian and post-Victorian eras. Each project is accompanied by a detailed thread diagram which shows exactly which colour should be used and where. The small size of the designs allows for great flexibility in their final usea such as group framing, making up into cushions, book covers, quilt squares, needle cases, box lids, tote bags, pockets on clothing and so on.

An Illustrated History of Needlework Tools

Author: Gay Ann Rogers
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN:
Category : Needlework
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Elegant Stitches

Author: Judith Baker Montano
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607053594
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
The renowned fiber artist shares a wealth of inspiration in this illustrated reference guide with 100s of stitches for needleworkers of all skill levels. Judith Baker Montano’s Elegant Stitches features all the step-by-step instructions and illustrations you’ll need to create your own embroidered masterpieces. This volume includes 117 embroidery stitches and more than 130 crazy quilt combination stitches to start your stitching adventure. Judith also offers in-depth instruction on silk ribbon stitches, free-form stitches, composite stitches, and even left-handed stitches.

Every Woman's Encyclopaedia

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women's encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 764

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Hobbies

Author: Steven M. Gelber
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231504232
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396

Book Description
Whether it's needlepoint or woodworking, collecting stamps or dolls, everyone has a hobby, or is told they need one. But why do we fill our leisure time with the activities we do? And what do our hobbies say about our culture? Steven Gelber here traces the history and significance of hobbies from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1950s. Although hobbies are often touted as a break from work, Gelber demonstrates that they reflect and reproduce the values and activities of the workplace by bringing utilitarian rationality into the home, imitating the economic stratification of the marketplace, and reinforcing traditional gender roles. Drawing on a wide array of social and cultural theory, Hobbies fills a critical gap in American cultural history and provides a compelling new perspective on the meaning of leisure.