Celtic Animals Charted Designs

Author: Ina Kliffen
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486291253
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Book Description
Forty-three carefully designed color-coded charts depict bizarre mythical creatures that abound in Celtic art. Complete instructions and easy-to-follow diagrams enable even beginning needlecrafters to create a wealth of fabulous patterns that will embellish clothing, linens, and other domestic items.

Celtic Charted Designs

Author: Co Spinhoven
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486157199
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 65

Book Description
Over 300 lovely designs from Book of Kells, Tara Brooch, and other authentic Celtic sources: spiral work, knot work, biomorphic patterns, more.

Charted Peasant Designs from Saxon Transylvania

Author: Emil Sigerus
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486234258
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 62

Book Description
A century ago, a folk art enthusiast collected these ornate, highly stylized designs from among a now-dispersed community of ethnic Germans residing in Transylvania. Nearly 200 designs include birds, flowers, mythical creatures, and other motifs in styles ranging from simple to complex and in themes from medieval to modern. Easily adapted to other crafts projects.

Celtic and Old Norse Designs

Author: Courtney Davis
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486412296
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Artists, illustrators, designers, and craftspeople in search of exceptionally bold and inventive motifs will find them in this versatile treasury brimming with 125 royalty-free designs. Taken from authentic Celtic and Old Norse sources, they include an amazing array of birds, human figures, and mythological creatures, all ingeniously woven into an intricate network of spirals and interlacings. Meticulously adapted from artwork that graced ancient rune stones and religious symbols, furniture, manuscripts, bronze mirrors, sword hilts, cooking utensils, and other artifacts, the illustrations depict a crucifix; decorative creatures that adorned the pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels; interwoven designs from stone crosses of Ireland, Scotland, and Cornwall; and many other designs and motifs. Convenient and inexpensive, this collection offers inspiration and a wealth of immediately usable dramatic ornamentation rich in character and distinctive in content.

Celtic Cross Stitch

Author: Anne Orr
Publisher: New Holland Australia(AU)
ISBN: 9781859746417
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
Presents patterns and instructions for over forty small cross-stitch projects inspired by the images and motifs of Celtic art, grouped in the categories of water, fire, air, and earth; and includes background on the Celtic world, as well as basic cross-stitch techniques.

Celtic Cross Stitch

Author: Gail Lawther
Publisher: David & Charles Publishers
ISBN: 9780715302729
Category : Cross-stitch
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
This book presents 30 projects using traditional Celtic art designs. Projects range from simple cards and pictures, a cushion and a rug, to an embroidered border for a wedding dress. Included is a separate section on Celtic alphabets.

Celtic Needlepoint

Author: Alice Starmore
Publisher: Collins & Brown
ISBN: 9781854700704
Category : Art, Celtic
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description

Scandinavian Charted Designs from the Archives of the Lindberg Press

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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Book Description

Encyclopedia of Embroidery Stitches, Including Crewel

Author: Marion Nichols
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486139778
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
Precise explanations and instructions, clearly illustrated, on how to work chain, back, cross, knotted, woven stitches, and many more — 178 in all, including Cable Outline, Whipped Satin, and Eyelet Buttonhole. Over 1400 illustrations.

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.