Beginner's Guide to Hardanger


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Projects: greetings card, sampler, tray holder, bridal bag, curtain tie-back, cushion cover.




Beginner's Guide to Blackwork


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An introduction to the sixteenth century embroidery technique in which beautiful patterns are created by stitching geometric designs onto evenweave fabric. Inspired by the past, Lesley Wilkins illustrates her techniques with a whole host of wonderful designs flowers, plants, birds, animals and figures. She covers everything from the materials to use and working with a chart, to getting started and how to stitch. Patterns are created by small stitched units which are combined in many different ways some heavily textured, some delicate and light. Borders can be built up by repeating and joining motifs. Clear step-by-step photographs accompany the author’s comprehensive instructions, and the motifs, borders, fill-in patterns and images are all charted, with inspirational pictures of embroideries showing how to build up finished designs. “The designs in this book are amazing. Some are very simple and others have a look of intricacy in them. There are figures, flowers, borders and much much more, this gives a lot of inspiration if you want to design your own piece.” —Postcard Reviews “A comprehensive book about the blackwork technique, covering the materials to use, how to use a chart, getting started and what designs we could do.” —Mr X Stitch




Early Style Hardanger


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Elegant Hardanger Embroidery


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'Elegant Hardanger Embroidery' takes you step-by-step from novice to advanced stitcher, with helpful diagrams and hints and tips at every stage.




The Anchor Book of Ribbon Embroidery


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Anchor Books are recognized as the essential handy guides to the whole range of embroidery techniques.




Beginner's Guide to Needlecrafts


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This title appeals to a wide, yet still growing market of creative handicraft enthusiasts. With simple instructions and step-by-step diagrams, and including charts and templates, this is a highly accessible and practical guide.




Beginner's Guide to Hardanger Embroidery


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Begin your adventure into embroidery with this simple, step-by-step guide to the basics, featuring two fun projects. Learn the basic stitches and essential techniques to create beautiful freestyle embroidery with this comprehensive guide. Every stitch has clear step-by-step instructions and is accompanied by coloured diagrams, making it easy to create impressive embroidered designs. This short book also includes instructions for two projects—celebration bunting and a retro sunglasses case.




Beginner's Guide to Drawn Thread Embroidery


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Patricia Bage uses clear, step-by-step instructions, photographs and diagrams to explain how to create drawn thread embroideries that combine traditional techniques with contemporary threads, colours and embellishments.




Classic Hardanger


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This one volume contains stitches, techniques and 50+ projects, based on the author's two earlier titles - Creative Hardanger and Decorative Designs in Hardanger.




Beginners Guide to Goldwork


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This popular book by Ruth Chamberlin now returns as a Search Press Classic, with an updated design and preface on the author by the illustrious embroiderer Mary Corbet. A needle art that dates back over a thousand years, goldwork embroidery involves sewing with lavish metal threads. It has been prized and often used by religious orders and royal households for its opulence and the way the light glimmers and plays on the beautiful metallic designs. Those in love with this brilliant style of embroidery can now create their own with easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide. Through calm and deliberate instruction, Chamberlin's book aims to teach the reader how to create a personal sampler - a piece of embroidery containing a mixture of designs and stitches, which shall provide a basis for future projects and enable readers to continue on their goldwork journey. With multiple stitch techniques - from simple laid stitch to the more complex basket stitch, several design motifs with corresponding templates that can be used, and a luminous gallery of finished work interspersed throughout, Chamberlin's work gently introduces beginners to the exquisite needle art of goldwork embroidery.