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.

Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860

Author: Rosemary Troy Krill
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 0759119465
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
Winterthur Museum is world renowned for its decorative arts collections and its exceptional educational programs. Adapted from the training materials developed at the museum, the revised and enhanced Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860: A Handbook for Interpreters is an indispensable guide for anyone involved with interpretation of decorative arts collections. Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860 elucidates the principles of public interpretation, explains how to analyze objects, and defines the concept of style. Eighteen chapters provide comprehensive descriptions of decorative arts including furniture, ceramics, textiles, paintings and prints, metalwork, glass, and other objects. Many museums and historic sites display such collections to thousands of visitors annually. Guides, interpreters, educators, and collection managers will find this book a helpful summary and a guide to further research. This enhanced edition includes now includes a CD featuring beautiful color images of the more than 170 black-and-white photographs in the book, bringing the Winterthur collections to life on your computer and in your classroom. Published in cooperation with Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.

Early American Design Motifs

Author: Suzanne E. Chapman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Workers in Early American crafts selected their designs for applique work, ceramics, embroidery, quilting, stenciling, and wood carving from a variety of New World sources. This CD-ROM and book set reproduces 300 of these black-and-white motifs, including floral sprays, garlands, and wreaths, birds and animals, landscapes, and bowls of fruit.

Crewel Embroidery

Author: Tatiana Popova
Publisher: SearchPress+ORM
ISBN: 1781266484
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
Learn to create stunning needlecraft projects inspired by traditional fairy tales, including The Wizard of Oz, Karolcia, The Wild Swans, and Cinderella. This magical collection takes as its central theme a magnificent embroidery depicting the “Tree of Happiness.” Each part of the embroidery is then explored in detail through stitch diagrams, explanations of the threads used, and alternative ways of working. There are seven wonderful designs in total, each dedicated to one of Tatiana’s favorite fairy tales, and all illustrated with gorgeous photographs and informative diagrams. Over 90 stitches are described in the book, all worked using stranded cotton and cotton pearl thread rather than traditional crewel wool, which gives the embroideries a fresh, modern appeal. Whether you are new to embroidery or an experienced embroiderer looking for inspiration and expert guidance, Tatiana’s beautiful book is one you will turn to again and again. “Tatiana Popova is a major craftswoman in her art, and what she does is beautiful. She not only demonstrates the techniques of crewel, she simplifies and breakdown each design into small achievable parts.” —Postcard Reviews

Crewel Embroidery

Author: Erica Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description

English Crewel Designs

Author: Frances M. Bradbury
Publisher: Stemmer House Publishers
ISBN: 9780880450157
Category : Crewelwork
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"The International Design Library"--Cover.

Designs and Patterns for Embroiderers and Craftspeople

Author: William Briggs & Co.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486142256
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 159

Book Description
Over 500 royalty-free motifs reproduced from finest Victorian source, classified according to type. Wide variety of flowers, greenery, sprays, butterflies, owls, insects, more. Large and small motifs as well as borders.

Early American Life

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 590

Book Description

Creative Crewel Embroidery

Author: Judy Jeroy
Publisher: Lark Books
ISBN: 9781579901875
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Crewel--the art of embroidery with wool--is a perennial favorite with embroiderers. Here's a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment, with designs that range from the traditional to the truly innovative. All the basics are there for the beginner, including 68 stitches and 11 projects. Then, for adventuresome stitchers, there is inspiration: 55 pieces from today's most talented and best-known embroiderers.

Crazy Patchwork

Author: Janet Haigh
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN: 9780844226644
Category : Embroidery, Machine
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
From pillows and throws to memory book covers and lampshades, Crazy Patchwork takes the theme of traditional crazy quilts and applies its principles to a whole range of ideas for gifts and for the home. Includes all the information a crafter needs to make exciting crazy quilt projects...in no time! All 20 projects can be easily machine-pieced or machine-embroidered and all use a range of brilliant colors, Many of the projects can be completed in just hours!