Add a touch of class to your projects with crests, shields, and other decorative devices from authentic medieval and early Renaissance sources. Optimized for use with home embroidery machines, 100 classic designs — in black-and-white and three different color combinations each — allow needleworkers to quickly embellish clothing, linens, quilts, and other accessories.

Richly illustrated with photos, charts, and drawings, this guide features more than 100 patterns for children's and adults' sweaters, jackets, caps, mittens, stockings, and shawls. Includes suggestions for adaptations to individual tastes.

Prize collection of 44 patterns — each a striking source of dazzling, royalty-free designs — includes such lively motifs as Tumbling Blocks, Farmer's Daughter, Card Trick, Indiana Puzzle, and Corn and Beans. Each pattern is depicted in a full quilt along with an isolated block to delineate design's basic structure. Invaluable sourcebook for graphic artists, quilters, and craftspeople.