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Royal School of Needlework Embroidery Techniques
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Product Description
A learn-by-doing guide to the most-prized hand embroidery techniques explains the four basic stitches, with projects to match. The Silk Shading stitch features a Landscape, Iris, Dog Portrait, and Tree Bark. Crewel Work offers you a Jacobean Leaf Sampler, Fish Sampler, and Abstract Window. Blackwork provides four dark-bordered nature and geometric designs, and Goldwork projects include an art nouveau pattern and an elegant purse. Along with the photos of each step of the technique, you’ll find photographs of museum exhibits featuring the world’s great embroidery, ancient and contemporary, including a coat of arms, floral patterns, angels, and a queen’s crown.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #218760 in Books
- Published on: 2006-03-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
Features
- ISBN13: 9780713488173
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Sally Saunders is an embroiderer with a longstanding association with the Royal School of needlework. An experienced tutor, she teaches the RSN apprentices and also runs classes for Embroiderers' Guild groups.
Customer Reviews
Exquisite, museum quality detail
Having recently taken a workshop in Or Nué from the Principal of the RSN (who has penned the foreward to this book), I eagerly anticipated the release of this book. Established in 1872, RSN is the needlework school that has made the coronation robes for British Royalty, repaired and conserved historical textiles, and whose mission is to teach others to carry on the beautiful skills of needlework.
Exquisite close-up details of historical needlework and the teaching examples could only be improved by holding them in your hand. Chapters cover silk shading, crewel work, blackwork, and goldwork, and include examples of stumpwork and felt padding instructions. Stitch-by-stitch techniques are fully illustrated in photographs with detail like looking through your magnifying lamp. Needle artists of all skill levels who would like to design their own are shown how sketches in black pencil or colored pencil can be interpreted in stitches, especially effective in the blackwork shading sections.
Renaissance era historical re-enactors should make this a must-buy. From Elizabethan and Jacobean to Art Nouveau and contemporary, follow their patterns and charts or create your own. This book is worth owning if only as a "coffee table art book". If you have been jaded by poor quality craft kits, bored by cross stitch, and snooze through embroidery guild meetings, Royal School of Needlework's Embroider Techniques will tantalize your eyes and have your fingers itching for those needles.
Inspiring Embrodiery
I have coveted this book for some time and have now got a copy of it!
I must admit that I am absolutely awe-inspired by it - and it has re-awakened an impulse to go beyond my skills. It also inspires envy in me for those lucky enough to be apprenticed at the School.
The book is beautifully laid out and the project/exercises are easy to follow.
With the projects, the tips and the detail included, this book is a must for all embroiderers.
Royal School of Needlework : Embroidery Techniques
This book should be in every needleworker's library! It uses a unique method to teach all types of embroidery. By taking a picture of an Iris flower and showing, in gorgeous color, the same flower using each technique, it allows the reader to compare and evaluate the different types of embroidery. Even advanced stitchers will get itchy fingers and will want to try all the techniques shown. I have an extensive needlework library and this is truly a great book!
