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: #100934 in Books
- Published on: 2006-03-28
- Original language:
English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
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
The end-all-and-be-all of needlwork publications
No one can besmirch the publisher of this book as the Royal School of Needlework is the "big kahuna" of world-renowned schools of the needle arts. This book covers 4 serious stitching techniques: silk shading, crewel, blackwork and goldwork. It does not have to be relegated to a learning textbook, though, because the histories and illustrations are simply marvellous to behold. This makes the book appropriate for even the beginner to own although it is clearly directed to the experienced stitcher. I can't recommend this book highly enough. It holds a most honored place in my extensive needlework library.
SUPERB!!!! EXQUISITE!!!
I agree with the comments of Linda Lahse Lange that this is a superb book. I have never done work like the book shows; however, this book inspires me to want to learn how, especially attending a school like the Royal School of Needlework. I will be a beginner as to the techniques in this book, however, I know I can grasp them. I love art, especially elegant, creative art. This book portrays serious needlework. HURRAH FOR THIS BOOK!!!!!Royal School of Needlework Embroidery Techniques
Many editing and instructional mistakes!
I purchased this book several months ago, and have been very excited about trying out some of the projects outlined in the text. While the book has many beautiful ideas, the instructions provided to accompany the projects are very flawed. I have tried to complete three of the projects thus far,and every set of instructions has been full of mistakes. The text often inverts the color of threads to be used, leading the embroiderer to stitch in the wrong colors, or uses a different colored thread in the illustration than is indicated in the directions. Also, the instructions often tell you to buy certain colors in DMC floss, when those colors are only made by Anchor, etc. The projects are lovely, but the embroiderer must pay careful attention to the directions and often self-correct during the stitching process to complete the piece. Additionally, the binding is very poor in this book. After only a few uses, the pages began falling out. I had to disbind the book and place the pages in a three-ring binder to keep them together.
