Author: Candace Bahouth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781850295341
Category : Art, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A collection of over 20 practical projects each worked in tent stitch, for the reader to recreate medieval needlepoint designs on items such as cushions, chair covers and tapestry-style waistcoats.
Candace Bahouth's Medieval Needlepoint
Author: Candace Bahouth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781850295341
Category : Art, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A collection of over 20 practical projects each worked in tent stitch, for the reader to recreate medieval needlepoint designs on items such as cushions, chair covers and tapestry-style waistcoats.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781850295341
Category : Art, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A collection of over 20 practical projects each worked in tent stitch, for the reader to recreate medieval needlepoint designs on items such as cushions, chair covers and tapestry-style waistcoats.
Flowers, Birds, and Unicorns
Author: Candice Bahouth
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
One of the world's most influential needlepoint and textile artists re-creates the magic of the Middle Ages with more than 20 magnificent projects, for both beginners and veteran stitchers. More than just a how-to, this book sets the designs, themes, and motifs in the context of Medieval art and life. Full-color illustrations.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
One of the world's most influential needlepoint and textile artists re-creates the magic of the Middle Ages with more than 20 magnificent projects, for both beginners and veteran stitchers. More than just a how-to, this book sets the designs, themes, and motifs in the context of Medieval art and life. Full-color illustrations.
Charted Peasant Designs from Saxon Transylvania
Author: Emil Sigerus
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486234258
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
A century ago, a folk art enthusiast collected these ornate, highly stylized designs from among a now-dispersed community of ethnic Germans residing in Transylvania. Nearly 200 designs include birds, flowers, mythical creatures, and other motifs in styles ranging from simple to complex and in themes from medieval to modern. Easily adapted to other crafts projects.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486234258
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
A century ago, a folk art enthusiast collected these ornate, highly stylized designs from among a now-dispersed community of ethnic Germans residing in Transylvania. Nearly 200 designs include birds, flowers, mythical creatures, and other motifs in styles ranging from simple to complex and in themes from medieval to modern. Easily adapted to other crafts projects.
The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright
Author: Michel Fabre
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252062643
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Widely acclaimed for its comprehensive and sensitive picture of one of America's most renowned writers, The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright received the Anisfield-Wolf Award on Race Relations when it was first published. This first paperback edition contains a new preface and bibliographic essay, updating changes in the author's approach to his subject and discussing works published on Wright since 1973.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252062643
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Widely acclaimed for its comprehensive and sensitive picture of one of America's most renowned writers, The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright received the Anisfield-Wolf Award on Race Relations when it was first published. This first paperback edition contains a new preface and bibliographic essay, updating changes in the author's approach to his subject and discussing works published on Wright since 1973.
Medieval Needlepoint
Author: Debby Robinson
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780806988207
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780806988207
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Glorafilia
Author: Carole Lazarus
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780091809768
Category : Canvas embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780091809768
Category : Canvas embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Blackwork
Author: Mary Gostelow
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486401782
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Blackwork, or black-on-white embroidery, has long been a popular craft among needleworkers. Often referred to as "Spanish work" because of its association with Catherine of Aragon and its possible connection with Moorish Spain, blackwork has also been well-documented in portraits by Hans Holbein the Younger and other 16th-century artists. In the present carefully researched work, this beautiful, distinctive, and age-old craft receives a comprehensive treatment from veteran needlecrafter Mary Gostelow. She first offers a fascinating background history of blackwork, tracing its use in England, the United States, and other countries. Clear, concise descriptions of stitches and equipment — needles, ground fabric, embroidery thread, and more — accompany discussions of contemporary styles and suggestions for innovative patterns. Originally applied to clothing and household items, blackwork is still used today to embellish table linens, bedding, wearing apparel, pillows, wall hangings, and other domestic articles. Enhanced with 140 illustrations, including many close-up sketches of blackwork designs, this intriguing and valuable how-to book will appeal to needlecrafters wanting to apply the time-honored techniques of blackwork to new projects in decorative embroidery.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486401782
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Blackwork, or black-on-white embroidery, has long been a popular craft among needleworkers. Often referred to as "Spanish work" because of its association with Catherine of Aragon and its possible connection with Moorish Spain, blackwork has also been well-documented in portraits by Hans Holbein the Younger and other 16th-century artists. In the present carefully researched work, this beautiful, distinctive, and age-old craft receives a comprehensive treatment from veteran needlecrafter Mary Gostelow. She first offers a fascinating background history of blackwork, tracing its use in England, the United States, and other countries. Clear, concise descriptions of stitches and equipment — needles, ground fabric, embroidery thread, and more — accompany discussions of contemporary styles and suggestions for innovative patterns. Originally applied to clothing and household items, blackwork is still used today to embellish table linens, bedding, wearing apparel, pillows, wall hangings, and other domestic articles. Enhanced with 140 illustrations, including many close-up sketches of blackwork designs, this intriguing and valuable how-to book will appeal to needlecrafters wanting to apply the time-honored techniques of blackwork to new projects in decorative embroidery.
Threads of Life
Author: Clare Hunter
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 168335771X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This globe-spanning history of sewing and embroidery, culture and protest, is “an astonishing feat . . . richly textured and moving” (The Sunday Times, UK). In 1970s Argentina, mothers marched in headscarves embroidered with the names of their “disappeared” children. In Tudor, England, when Mary, Queen of Scots, was under house arrest, her needlework carried her messages to the outside world. From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework. Clare Hunter, master of the craft, threads her own narrative as she takes us over centuries and across continents—from medieval France to contemporary Mexico and the United States, and from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland—to celebrate the universal beauty and power of sewing.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 168335771X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This globe-spanning history of sewing and embroidery, culture and protest, is “an astonishing feat . . . richly textured and moving” (The Sunday Times, UK). In 1970s Argentina, mothers marched in headscarves embroidered with the names of their “disappeared” children. In Tudor, England, when Mary, Queen of Scots, was under house arrest, her needlework carried her messages to the outside world. From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework. Clare Hunter, master of the craft, threads her own narrative as she takes us over centuries and across continents—from medieval France to contemporary Mexico and the United States, and from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland—to celebrate the universal beauty and power of sewing.
Icelandic Patterns in Needlepoint
Author: Jóna Sparey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780948432903
Category : Borders, Ornamental (Decorative arts)
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780948432903
Category : Borders, Ornamental (Decorative arts)
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Traditional Icelandic Embroidery
Author: Elsa E. Guðjónsson
Publisher: University of Iceland Press
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
"Traditional Icelandic Embroidery has been out of print for almost a decade and is now available in revised edition. The main text contains a survey of the history of Icelandic traditional embroidery from the earliest times to the middle of the nineteenth century, emphasizing extant embroideries preserved in the National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavik. Included are fifty-four photographs in full color of embroideries and twenty-four pages of original patterns, all in the National Museum of Iceland, and an extensive updated bibliography of relevant books and articles. Also included are eight pages with stitch diagrams and descriptions of how to work the various techniques used in the embroideries, and twenty-four plates of traditional Icelandic squared embroidery designs.
Publisher: University of Iceland Press
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
"Traditional Icelandic Embroidery has been out of print for almost a decade and is now available in revised edition. The main text contains a survey of the history of Icelandic traditional embroidery from the earliest times to the middle of the nineteenth century, emphasizing extant embroideries preserved in the National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavik. Included are fifty-four photographs in full color of embroideries and twenty-four pages of original patterns, all in the National Museum of Iceland, and an extensive updated bibliography of relevant books and articles. Also included are eight pages with stitch diagrams and descriptions of how to work the various techniques used in the embroideries, and twenty-four plates of traditional Icelandic squared embroidery designs.