Figure Work in Embroidery

Figure Work in Embroidery
Title Figure Work in Embroidery PDF eBook
Author Angela Bishop
Publisher The Crowood Press
Pages 659
Release 2020-09-01
Genre Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN 1785007289

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Figures can bring an embroidery to life, but they are tricky to do well. This book guides you through the materials, stitches, body parts and clothes to give you the confidence and skills to embroider a figure and experiment, using your creative inspiration. With over 400 colour photographs it gives key information for getting started, creating designs and preparing embroideries; techniques for making three-dimensional forms using stitching and padding techniques; clear instruction for mastering stitches and then ideas for using them creatively. Specific advice is given for embroidering the face, hair, hands and feet as well as ideas for using stitching embellishments, such as beads, sequins, buttons, ribbons, feathers and jewellery charms. Step-by-step projects demonstrate a range of beautiful styles and techniques.

Stumpwork Embroidery

Stumpwork Embroidery
Title Stumpwork Embroidery PDF eBook
Author Helen Richman
Publisher The Crowood Press
Pages 1059
Release 2017-10-26
Genre Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN 1785002953

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Stumpwork is a highly decorative and imaginative embroidery technique, which typically uses raised and padded stitches that are rich in texture. This practical book explains how to create your own piece of stumpwork embroidery. Beginning with an introduction to the appropriate materials, equipment and tools, it instructs on a wide range of stitches and techniques, and illustrates them with ten delightful projects. It then explains how to design your own piece of stumpwork before advising on finishing, presenting and caring for you work. Written by a leading embroiderer, this beautiful book will inspire and encourage you to try this exciting technique and create your own exquisite designs. Contents include: Practical advice on working with threads, as well as how to stretch and prepare fabrics; Over 900 photographs to guide the reader through a wide range of decorative and raised stitches; Detailed instructions on combining stumpwork with a range of other techniques to create unique designs; Ten projects show how to use the stitches in designs, including stumpwork human figures. This practical guide will be of great interest to embroiderers, designers, theatre designers, interior designers and historians, and is beautifully illustrated with 983 colour photographs.

Embroidered Portraits

Embroidered Portraits
Title Embroidered Portraits PDF eBook
Author Jan Messent
Publisher Search PressLtd
Pages 128
Release 2012
Genre Art
ISBN 9781844487417

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"With a different and delightfully practical approach to a traditional and time-honored subject, Jan Messent shows you how to create portraits in stitch. There are simple instructions for shaping and padding different-angled heads, creating faces, adding features and stitching the hair and garments, as well as explorations of the most suitable fabrics, stitches, threads and embellishments to use. Within this book you will discover a host of personalities, including a mysterious white Edwardian lady, the formidable Bess of Hardwicke and a 'book-box' that opens to reveal exquisite renditions of Cinderella and Prince Charming. All of Jan's portraits are filled with character and charm, and have a timeless appeal that will enthral and excite textile artists and embroiderers alike"--Dust jacket cover.

The Art of Narrative Embroidery

The Art of Narrative Embroidery
Title The Art of Narrative Embroidery PDF eBook
Author Rosemary Farmer
Publisher
Pages 152
Release 2015
Genre Embroidery
ISBN 9780957563667

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Mystical Stitches

Mystical Stitches
Title Mystical Stitches PDF eBook
Author Christi Johnson
Publisher Storey Publishing, LLC
Pages 379
Release 2021-06-22
Genre Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN 163586335X

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Explore personal transformation through the stitching of dreams and intentions. Anything but ordinary, Mystical Stitches combines the beloved and accessible craft of embroidery with a spiritual element, introducing a rich treasury of 200 magical symbols you can use to set an intention and create personal icons to wear or embellish items in the home. Christi Johnson offers unique patterns inspired by botanicals, animals, numbers, the cosmos, earth elements, zodiac signs, and mythical beasts, for novice or well-practiced crafters to combine into talismans with personal meaning. Johnson’s folk art style is vibrant and unintimidating and provides a framework for bringing spiritual elements into physical form. This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA.

The Upholsterer and Interior Decorator

The Upholsterer and Interior Decorator
Title The Upholsterer and Interior Decorator PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 334
Release 1916
Genre Interior decoration
ISBN

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Sessional Papers

Sessional Papers
Title Sessional Papers PDF eBook
Author Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher
Pages 686
Release 1900
Genre Great Britain
ISBN

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