 | Creative Hand Embroidery: Exquisite Countryside Scenes in Simple Stitches by Sue Newhouse
Buy used from: $3.90 Drop-dead gorgeous embroideries in shockingly easy stitches!
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 | Hand Embroidered Country Scenes by Sue Newhouse
Buy used from: $8.08 More of the same as her first book.
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 | Beginner's Guide to Stumpwork by Kay Dennis
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $6.10 First non-intimidating stumpwork guide I've come across! Good needlelace instruction too.
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 | Royal School of Needlework: Embroidery Techniques by Sally Saunders
Buy used from: $48.48 Very useful, a reference we all need on our bookshelves.
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 | Color and Design for Embroidery: A Practical Handbook for the Daring Embroiderer and Adventurous Textile Artist by Richard Box
Buy used from: $57.48 Don't be fooled by the title, you don't need to be daring or adventurous to find this book really really useful.
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 | Fairytale Quilts and Embroidery by Gail Harker
Buy used from: $1.54 Incredibly useful, both for technique and ideas, really helps bridge the gap between narrative and image. Plus, good to oooh and aaah over.
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 | Stumpwork Embroidery: A Collection Of Fruits, Flowers & Insects For Contemporary Raised Embroidery by Jane Nicholas
Buy new: $21.56 / Used from: $9.79 Must-have stumpwork classic.
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 | Stumpwork Embroidery Designs And Projects (Milner Craft) by Jane Nicholas
Buy new: $21.56 / Used from: $7.41 Sort of the second volume of the above book. Need the above book first, can't buy this one alone.
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 | New Designs in Raised Embroidery by Barbara Hirst
Buy used from: $12.99 Another book more for inspiration and ooohing and aaahing, these projects are also possibly achievable by mortal humans.
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 | Brazilian Three-Dimensional Embroidery: Instructions and 50 Transfer Patterns (Dover Needlework Series) by Rosie Montague
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $2.64 The best $5 you'll ever spend on an embroidery book.
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 | Elegant Stitches: An Illustrated Stitch Guide & Source Book of Inspiration by Judith Baker Montano
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $7.44 Good silk ribbon embroidery and general embroidery book.
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 | Creative Crewel Embroidery: Traditions & Innovations by Judy Jeroy
Buy used from: $4.00 Great crewel book. Expands the idea of what crewel can encompass.
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 | Glasgow Girls: Women in Art and Design, 1880-1920
Buy used from: $49.95 WOW!!! Some amazing historic embroideries, other great art too.
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