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Beginner's Guide to Blackwork
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| NZ$ 34.95 each |
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| Author: Lesley Wilkins |
| Published by: Search Press Ltd |
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Blackwork is a timeless, classic sixteenth-century embroidery technique in which beautiful designs are created by stitching geometric designs on to evenweave fabric.
Inspired by the past, Lesley Wilkins illustrates her techniques with a whole host of wonderful designs – flowers, plants, birds, animals and figures. She covers everything – from what materials to use and working with a chart, to getting started and how to stitch. Patterns are created by small stitched units which are combined in many different ways – some heavily textured, some delicate and light. Borders can be built up by repeating and joining motifs. Clear step-by-step photographs accompany the authors comprehensive instructions, and the motifs, borders, fill-in patterns and images are all charted, with inspirational pictures of embroideries showing how to build up finished designs.
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The Quilter's Album of Patchwork Patterns
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| NZ$ 125.00 each |
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| Author: Jinny Beyer |
| Published by: Breckling Press |
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This is a stunning collection of 4,050 block designs - all with easy-to-follow instructions for recreating them in any colour and size you desire. This lavishly illustrated new book from supreme quilter Jinny Beyer provides quilters, designers, and anyone interested in patchwork with a comprehensive tool for finding, identifying, and drafting over 4,000 unique block designs. Organised in an easy-to-use manner, "The Quilter's Album" features detailed illustrations of each block showing how it has been pieced, along with step-by-step instructions, allowing readers to successfully recreate each design in any size and colour they desire. This volume also includes a Quick Reference section for easy comparison of similar blocks, a chapter on design ideas to help get your creative juices flowing, and transparency sheets with 32 common design grids to get you started.
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Boutis & Trapunto
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| Author: Catherine Coget |
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Boutis and trapunto combine embroidery, quilting and richly symbolic decorative patterns to create beautiful, original designs.
Catherine Coget illustrates these techniques, inspired by designs used by embroiderers in years gone by. Flowers, leaves, fruit, birds and hearts are embellished with lines, curves, scallops and circles, and the quilted outlines accentuate the simple elegance of the work. Transparent white fabric is traditionally used for boutis, which is padded and worked on both sides; this highlights the delicate patterns adding to their beauty. Trapunto is padded and worked on one side of cotton fabric. Both methods can be combined to create stunning, original designs for the home.
Using step-by-step photographs, simple patterns and easy-to-follow instructions, the author presents an interesting and inspiring guide to these timeless techniques.
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The Myth and Magic of Embroidery
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| Author: Helen M. Stevens |
| Published by: David & Charles |
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From ancient times, embroidery and other textile arts have been associated with myths and legends, fables and fairy tales, high drama and folklore, from Ancient Greece to modern Europe. This book explores the use of embroidery in such rituals.
The Myth and Magic of Embroidery contains embroidered pictures inspired by nature, including plant life, animals, landscapes and sacred places from many origins such as Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Old English. Each chapter contains an adaptation of a legend or fable with illustrations taken from the author's own workbook. The book includes detailed working methods and new design techniques, such as the transformation of traditional ethnic stitches and the translation of designs from ceramics and architecture into motifs for embroidery, enabling the reader to create stunning embroidery pieces of their own.
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