Royal School of Needlework Embroidery Techniques

About this book

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 youll find photographs of museum exhibits featuring the worlds great embroidery ancient and contemporary including a coat of arms floral patterns angels and a queens crown.