Miniature Needlepoint Carpets


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If you can't buy it -- make it yourself! Do you covet unusual miniature rugs to give your dolls' house the perfect finishing touch? They can be hard to find...and prohibitively costly. Using these basic techniques, you can stitch 25 carpets in a wide variety of styles. For each one there's a color photograph, charts, and a grade, so you'll know its exact level of difficulty.




Miniature Needlepoint Rugs for Dollhouses


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These 37 rug designs are charted for easy use on #18 canvas: Oriental, Persian, Early American, and more.




Oriental Carpets in Miniature


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The intricate patterning and rich hues of tribal rugs from Turkey, the Caucasus, and Iran have attracted collectors for decades. Twenty-four different designs from these rich traditions, carefully reduced in scale and accurately charted, make handsome small take-along projects. Designs can be worked on fine, medium or heavy canvas. The patterns have been gleaned from museum collections, and their origins have been carefully researched and documented.




Making Miniature Chinese Rugs and Carpets


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Twenty-five original dollhouse patterns for making your own Chinese rugs and carpets provide a way to decorate your dolls’ house with hand-made treasures. Needlework instructions for stitching and finishing techniques come with color charts, and use only ordinary materials and equipment. “This book will help you turn an enjoyable hobby into an elegant investment.”—Doll Castle News.




Needlework Designs for Miniature Projects


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This all-original guide features over 60 charted designs that miniature enthusiasts and needleworkers can create at a fraction of store prices. It's easy to enhance dollhouses and any other miniature setting with rugs, pillows, quilts, bedspreads, upholstery, napkins, window treatments, chair cushions, and more. Includes complete instructions, 64 charts, and a metric conversion chart.







Kilim Designs in Needlepoint


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Designs from the Islamic countries of North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.




More Miniature Oriental Rugs & Carpets


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“If you are looking for a variety of Oriental designs representing the major carpet-weaving regions of western Asia, [this] book has plenty of intricate patterns to offer. Ian's lifelong passion for Oriental rugs and Meik's many years of sewing experience mesh[ed] well...basic stitching and finishing instructions are given, so that anyone with needlepoint experience will be able to follow the color graphs and produce a masterpiece.”—Dollhouse Miniatures.




Making Miniature Oriental Rugs and Carpets


Book Description

Aimed at dolls' house enthusiasts, keen needlepoint stitchers and connoisseurs of fine carpets, this collection of miniaturized oriental carpet designs contains 25 designs shown in full colour photographs and 1:12 scale colour charts. They are based on authentic oriental rugs and carpets from Turkey, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia.




Decorative Victorian Needlework


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Whether your pleasure is animals, florals, abstract geometrics, or repeating patterns, they re here, along with borders and needlework rugs. Stitch cushions that feature subtly shaded, mossy rosebud wreaths, a cord-and-tassel design for borders, a pillow with a posy of violets, and a background of overlapping ribbons. From pin cushions and pictures to chair covers and carpets, every one is breathtaking. "