Danish Floral Charted Designs

Author: Gerda Bengtsson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486239578
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
Embroiderers will welcome this delightful collection of charted designs by Gerda Bengtsson, considered one of the greatest living designers of counted cross-stitch designs. Here are more than 40 exquisite florals, including such favorites as Buttercups, Anemone, Pansies, Spring Flowers, Iceland Poppy, Crowberry, Lapland Rhododendron, Wild Fruit, Sweet Violet, Lady's Mantle, Stone Bramble, and Hare's-Foot Clover. All of the designs are color keyed to both D.M.C. and Danish Flower Thread embroidery floss, and because the chart makes it easy to vary the size of the design they can be used to decorate anything from small pillows to bedspreads. The patterns lend themselves to use not only in cross-stitch, but also needlepoint, rug-hooking, crochet, and other forms of counted thread embroidery.

Old-Fashioned Floral Charted Designs

Author: Barbara Christopher
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486263021
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
100 color-coded designs with instructions, diagrams for creating lovely floral wreaths, bouquets, borders ? many with messages.

Herbs and Medicinal Plants in Cross-stitch from the Danish Handcraft Guild

Author: Gerda Bengtsson
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
ISBN: 9780442206772
Category : Botany, Medical, in art
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description

Early American Embroidery Designs

Author: Elizabeth M. Townshend
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486249468
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
This rare treasury of original embroidery designs dates from early days of the Republic. Nearly 200 beautiful and functional floral, vine, and basket motifs are featured in repeat patterns, spot designs, and more. While most of the patterns were probably intended for use with silk threads, several are particularly effective worked in wool.

To Life!

Author: Linda Weintraub
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520273613
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 380

Book Description
This title documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farms anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkows 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet by global warming.

Egyptian Charted Designs

Author: Julie S. Hasler
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486273259
Category : Cross-stitch
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Over 50 color-coded charts of needlework designs with ancient Egyptian themes: sarcophagus, Egyptian cat, scarab, winged serpent, many more. Instructions, 16 how-to diagrams.

The Conservation of Cave 85 at the Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang

Author: Neville Agnew
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606061577
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 476

Book Description
The Mogao Grottoes, a World Heritage Site in northwestern China, are located along the ancient caravan routes—collectively known as the Silk Road—that once linked China with the West. Founded by a Buddhist monk in the late fourth century, Mogao flourished over the following millennium, as monks, local rulers, and travelers commissioned hundreds of cave temples cut into a mile-long rock cliff and adorned them with vibrant murals. More than 490 decorated grottoes remain, containing thousands of sculptures and some 45,000 square meters of wall paintings, making Mogao one of the world’s most significant sites of Buddhist art. In 1997 the Getty Conservation Institute, which had been working with the Dunhuang Academy since 1989, began a case study using the Late–Tang dynasty Cave 85 to develop a methodology that would stabilize the deteriorating wall paintings. This abundantly illustrated volume is the definitive report on the project, which was completed in 2010.

Traditional Icelandic Embroidery

Author: Elsa E. Guðjónsson
Publisher: 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.

Danish Cross-stitch Zodiac Samplers

Author: Jana Hauschild Lindberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780486240329
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 60

Book Description
Appropriate signs and symbols, plus wide variety of motifs: floral borders, alphabets, birds, more. 12 charts.

The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings

Author: Kathleen Dardes
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892363843
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 582

Book Description
This volume presents the proceedings of an international symposium organized by the Getty Conservation Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum. The first conference of its kind in twenty years, the symposium assembled an international group of conservators of painted panels, and gave them the opportunity to discuss their philosophies and share their work methods. Illustrated in color throughout, this volume presents thirty-one papers grouped into four topic areas: Wood Science and Technology, History of Panel-Manufacturing Techniques, History of the Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings, and Current Approaches to the Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings.