Create Heirloom-Quality NeedleworkNoted needlework author and designer Shay Pendray shares her secrets for unique, inventive stitchery. From years of study in Japan and around the world, Shay has learned stitching techniques that will help you create one-of-a-kind works of art.From the basics of framing up, starting and stopping threads, and laying multi-standard threads, to embellishing, combining stitches, and couching techniques, you will be inspired to ...

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The elegant art of silk ribbon embroidery is easy and quick to do, with stunning results within the reach of any stitcher. Author of numerous titles on crazy quilting and the needle arts, J. Marsha Michler will guide you through getting started with this timeless craft. Learn embroidery stitches for ribbon work, and how to create sewn florals that will add further dimension and emphasis to your designs. Learn to make bias ribbons, and to easily dye silk ribbons. Follow a simple tutorial to...

With international fashion houses selling wildly expensive pieces, high-street fast fashion, and no-frills (forgive the pun) clothes available in the local supermarket for under a tenner, the days of clothes rationing are certainly far behind us. It has never been easier or cheaper to clothe ourselves, but despite this, is it right to throw away our clothes just because of a hole here or a stain there? Charity shops are a worthy home for items that are too small or ones we really...

Much of the beauty and charm of crazy quilts is in the variations and combinations of embroidery stitches that are worked on them. Author of numerous titles on crazy quilting and the needle arts, J. Marsha Michler presents a collection of hundreds of variations on twenty basic embroidery stitches. The twenty Stitch Plates illustrate hundreds of ways that embroidery stitches can be worked along seams and within patches of a crazy quilt. The 20 stitches themselves are diagrammed and explaine...

A few basic stitches and some simple tools and materials are all it takes to get started with surface embroidery. Hand embroidery offers much in the way of creative expression; adding dimension, texture, and color to the surface it is worked on. Author of numerous titles on crazy quilting and the needle arts, J. Marsha Michler covers recommended tools, threads, and fabrics, and includes tips for working with threads, the tracing paper transfer method, ideas for creating designs, and three ...

Learn ways to combine embroidery stitches to make beautiful seam treatments for crazy quilting. Author of numerous titles on crazy quilting and the needle arts, J. Marsha Michler presents techniques that you can readily apply to create your very own unique seam rows. This tutorial shows how a handful of basic embroidery stitches lend themselves to creating an almost infinite variety of combinations. Includes 8 methods of combining stitches, how-to's for the basic stitches, and over 120 sti...

This edition features• illustrations• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and IndexCONTENTSENGLISH NEEDLEWORK.— Its Practice in Past Times.—Its place amongst the Minor Arts.—Mr Ruskin’s Views as to Needlework in a Museum.—Lack of a History.—Exhibition of Samplers.—Range of this VolumePART I.— SAMPLERS.—The Need of.—The Age of.—Inscriptions on.—Alphabets and Numerals on.—Signatures on.—Inscriptions on.—Design, Ornament, and Colouring of, including: The...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Embroidery has always been a popular art in England, and records show that from Anglo-Saxon times the English were skilled in the craft. The earliest surviving examples are all ecclesiastical. Portions of a magnificent stole and maniple (Plate 1 in this book), dating from about A.D. 915, were found in the tomb of St. Cuthbert in Durham Cathedral, and are now preserved in the Cathedral library. The stole and maniple are embroidered in coloured silks and gold thread, and bear inscriptions st...