The Anchor Book of Crewelwork Embroidery Stitches

Author(s): Eve Harlow

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An introduction to the techniques of historical Jacobean crewel embroidery, with 48 stitches and 200 ideas for using them. Step-by-step diagrams show how each is constructed and how traditional Jacobean patterns are formed, and trace-off patterns are provided for many designs.

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Part 1 Crewel stitches: Basque stitch; battlemented couching; brick-and-cross filling; brick satin filling; burden stitch; buttonhole block shading; buttonhole, German knotted; open and knotted buttonhole; buttonhole scale; buttonhole square; buttonhole triangle; up-and-down buttonhole; chain-stitch filling; chain outline; chain twisted, detached; chessboard filling; half chevron; cloud filling; coral stitch; open Cretan, closed; detached chain; ermine filling; fern stitch; fly stitch, attached; four-legged knot; French knot; French knots on stalks; closed herringbone; honeycomb filling; laid work; long-and-short stitch; moss stitch; pearl stitch; Pekin stitch; plate stitch; Romanian stitch; satin stitch; satin fan block shading; knotted satin stitch; threaded chain stitch; seeding; sheaf (or faggot); stem outling, filling; Portuguese knotted; tete de boeuf; thorn stitch; trellis square filling; wave stitch. Part 2 Trace-off patterns.

General Fields

  • : 9780715306321
  • : David & Charles Publishers
  • : David & Charles Publishers
  • : 0.181
  • : 30 June 1997
  • : 142mm X 150mm X 10mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Eve Harlow
  • : Paperback
  • : 2nd Revised edition
  • : 746.446042
  • : 128
  • : 49 colour photographs, 217 two-colour line illustrations, 30 tracing patterns