Offers a collection of twenty-six designs with the modern crafter in mind. This title begins with an introduction to cross stitch with patterns that follow for decorating clothes, accessories, home accents, and gifts. It also offers Liner Notes , which are creative sidebars throughout the book on designing original projects.

The collection of late 16th-century embroidery, needlework and wrought linen at the National Trust's Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire is the most important of its type in Britain, and probably in the Western World. In the first ever catalogue of this extraordinary collection, Santina Levey looks at each piece in turn, explaining its creation.

Examines age-old aphorisms in light of knitting.

Elegant designs by William Morris - the founder of the Arts and Crafts movement - skilfully adapted by Mary Noble for this collection of iron-on transfer patterns.

Characterizes the embroidery of the Greek islands and the Epirus Rehion by its design as well as geography. This work examines the motifs and structural characteristics.

Introduces a unique drawn thread embroidery originating from Poltava in Ukraine.

Punchneedle embroidery is simple to learn, portable, and easy to start and finish in a matter of hours. This work helps you find creative ways to make and display these tiny treasures. It includes 16 projects featuring flowers, animals, holiday themes, and geometric designs.

The Ultimate Stitch Dictionary. Provides the most comprehensive collection of crochet stitches ever, all culled from the archives of Vogue Knitting, the most trusted source for knitting and crochet.

A guide that includes techniques and instructions to help readers create their own textured, three-dimensional designs on canvas. The techniques covered include canvas stitches, stump work, ribbon embroidery, knitting and wire work, each one is easy to follow and illustrated with line drawings.

In a world where sheep-based knitting is the norm, do you feel left out? Are you knitting for someone who won't wear wool? This how-to guide teaches you about non-wool yarns, focusing on plant fibers including cotton, linen, hemp, soy, bamboo, Tencel, rayon, the new synthetics, and more.

This work compliments Embroideries and Patterns of Nineteenth Century Vienna , Serena's first publication concerning the Nowotny Collection. Like its counterpart, Animal Embroideries and Patterns surveys samplers, motifs and decorative patterns, but focuses solely on animal patterns.

Crazy quilting needn't be sheer madness - thanks to the simple techniques covered in this excellent book. In Beaded Crazy Quilting readers learn the ins and outs of adding bead and ribbon work to this popular style of quilting. This format focuses on a single elaborate project that is the culmination of a series of smaller projects aimed at teaching various techniques. Step-by-step instructions, .

Glasgow Museums hold one of the finest collections of samplers in UK. This book presents a short introduction to the Glasgow Museums' collection of samplers and another essay on samplers in general - why they were made; construction methods; use of different stitches, motifs and more, and other instructive uses such as for learning the alphabet.

The joint efforts of the Peabody Essex Museum, the American Embroiders' Guild, and PieceWork magazine have resulted in this lavish collection of stunning contemporary needlework projects based on four centuries of American embroidery.

This handbook explores the Ashmolean Museum's collection of English seventeenth-century embroideries. These intriguing pieces, often made by affluent school girls, include pictorial panels and an elaborate box showing bible stories as well as costume accessories and fanciful items such as a frog-shaped purse. The introductory essay explores how the miniature world of kings and queens, biblical ...

Presents a collection of embroideries through a selection of beautiful flowers that are interpreted by the author in her own style. Providing step-by-step instructions and full size templates, this work also offers useful diagrams for patterns and stitch directions, as well as colour keys.

Following the success of her book, Miniature Embroidered Patchwork: Projects in 1/12 Scale , Margaret Major has now written this comprehensive introduction to the exquisite art of miniature embroidery for the 1/12th scale dolls' house. It covers everything you need to know about the fabrics, threads, embroidery frames, needles, scissors, etc.