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 Needlework

Author: Flora Klickmann
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486421546
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 125

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 Needle-craft

Author: R. L. Shep
Publisher: R L Shep
ISBN: 9780914046219
Category : Fancy work.
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description

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.

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.

Encyclopedia of Victorian Needlework

Author: Sophia Frances Anne Caulfeild
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description
Full, precise descriptions of stitches, techniques for dozens of needlecrafts--most exhaustive reference of its kind. Only Vol. 2 (M-Z) is available.

Victorian Crochet

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

Book Description

Victorian Needlework

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

Victorian Style Needlecrafts

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Needlework
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description

Women, Work, and Representation

Author: Lynn Mae Alexander
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821414933
Category : Art and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
In Victorian England, virtually all women were taught to sew, but this essentially domestic virtue took on a different aspect for the professional seamstress of the day. This study considers the way this powerful image of working-class suffering was used by social reformers in art and literature.