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197 EMBROIDERY STITCHES

203 Pages with 197 Embroidery Stitches.

The original copy of this rare book was printed in 1912

In this collection of Embroidery Stitches, I have endeavoured to place before those

artists who are interested in needlecraft an exposition of the most useful and artistic

stitches that have formed a part of my own work during several years' study and

practice of Art Embroidery. practice of Art Embroidery.

Some of these will be familiar to Needle-artists : others will serve to exemplify how,

in process of working, fresh stitches may be evolved from old ones ; or how, when

originality gains ground entirely new stitches become apparent and workable.

A point somewhat overlooked in Art Embroidery is the fact that each separate stitch

is a design in itself.

If this principle be fully recognised, the necessity for careful and systematic study of

the forms and functions of Embroidery Stitches will immediately become obvious to the forms and functions of Embroidery Stitches will immediately become obvious to

the student and worker.

Embroidery Stitches is planned with a view to facilitating reference, and to affording

immediate conception of the intimate connection between illustration and explanation.

To attain this end, the illustrations are placed in uniform spaces throughout the volume,

two on each page ; and in each case the description appears opposite its corresponding

design.

STITCH PATTERNS and DESIGNS For EMBROIDERY

PREFACE

In the preface to the first edition of " Simple Stitch Patterns for Embroidery,"

I explained that my object was not to compete with the books on embroidery and fine

needlework already written by experts, but to devise a simple and direct method of

decorative stitchery for workers with little leisure for fine work, and to help teachers,

dressmakers, and others to be independent of the printed transfers and designs.dressmakers, and others to be independent of the printed transfers and designs.

The success of " Simple Stitch Patterns " has encouraged me to carry further the

method of building up orderly and balanced designs on stitches and groups of stitches,

and adding to the number and variety of suggestive patterns, thereby, I hope, giving

practical help while fostering the love of pattern-making which is inherent in almost all of us.

Some of the patterns shown here require more skill than do those in the above book,

and though this book may be considered a development of it, neither is in any way

dependent on the other.dependent on the other.

The method and use of the two simple gauges explained here have in practice been

much appreciated as a means of introduction to original elementary design for craftwork

generally.

A. B.-J.

CONTENTS

PREFACE . . . . . . . viiLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS:LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS:(a) Plates ; (b) Text Illustrations and Diagrams . ixI. INTRODUCTION iII. THE METHOD AND THE GAUGES ... 2III. STITCHES, COLOUR, AND MATERIALS : . 9IV. PLATES WITH DESCRIPTIVE DETAILS . . 16

VINTAGE LACE MAKING and HONITON LACE By Devonia

79 pages of Full and Practical Instructions for acquiring the art of making this beautiful

and fashionable lace.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

THE kind manner in which my little treatise on the art of Lace making has been received,

has encouraged me to publish it in a revised and enlarged form.

I have made a few verbal alterations in the earlier patterns, as in the course of frequent I have made a few verbal alterations in the earlier patterns, as in the course of frequent

working, better and quicker modes of doing them presented themselves, still the first part

is substantially the same as when originally written.

In the second part I have endeavoured to enlarge the area of Honiton lace, and vary the

interest, by reviving some of the many different combinations of stitches in which the

workers delighted in the old days when Lace-making was at its zenith, before they sunk

to the weary round of turkey's tails, spread eagles, conventional roses, vulgar lilies,

coarse thread, bad work, and little pay. coarse thread, bad work, and little pay.

The concluding instructions are devoted to a form of Lace which is a novelty in England,

though it has been long worked in Brussels ; I mean the process of doing flowers in relief,

by means of which the white threads may be formed into a veritable work of art, and

afford scope alike for genius and for high mechanical skill.

I must here add one word of thanks to my kind and talented coadjutor, Olive, without the

aid of whose clever drawings it would have been impossible for me to have rendered my

descriptions intelligible.descriptions intelligible.

" DEVONIA."

How To Make Lace By Mary Woodward

97 pages of Instructions and Patterns.

The original edition of this Rare Book was printed in 1896

Bobbin lace is a lace textile made by braiding and twisting lengths of thread,

which are wound on bobbins to manage them.

As the work progresses, the weaving is held in place with pins set in a lace pillow,

the placement of the pins usually determined by a pattern or pricking pinned on the pillow.the placement of the pins usually determined by a pattern or pricking pinned on the pillow.

Bobbin lace is also known as pillow lace and bone lace, because early bobbins were

made of bone or ivory.

Bobbin lace is one of the major categories of handmade laces, the other being needlelace.

DIRECTIONS

For Making Cluny and Torchon Laces.The Cords and their Crossings.Crossing of the Cords.Crossing of the Cords.The Tissues,How to Begin.

PATTERNS:

Pattern No. 1.—Cluny Edge.Pattern No. 2.—Torchon.Pattern No. 3.—Torchon.Pattern No. 4.—Point d' Esprit Insertion.Pattern No. 4.—Point d' Esprit Insertion.Pattern No. 5.—Fine Torchon.

Point Vierge Insertion.

A Cluny Pattern.

Pattern No. 8.—Point Vierge Insertion.Pattern No. 9.—Torchon Border.Pattern No. 10.—Border of Point Vierge and Point d' Esprit.Pattern No. 11. - 66 BobbinsPattern No. 11. - 66 Bobbins

To Turn the Corner.

Pattern No. 12. - 64 Bobbins

To Turn the Corner.

HOW TO MAKE STITCHES

Plus Dry and French Stamping

11 Pages with some interesting Embroidery Stitches.

Print out the pages and keep them in your work box.

The original copy of this rare book was printed in 1884

STITCHES:

Algerine Work Algerine Work Barden Stitch Basket StitchButton-Hole Stitch, (ordinary)Button-Hole Stitch, (embossed or tongue)Chain Stitch, Plain. Chain Stitch, (twisted)Chain Stitch, (vine)Chain Stitch, (vine)Cross Stitch.Cross Stitch. (Persian)Feather Stitch DesignsFilling for Embroidered ScollopsFlannel or Ornamental StitchGerman Diamond StitchGobelin StitchGobelin StitchHem StitchingHerring-Bone StitchIrish StitchJanina StitchKnot Stitch, (covered)Knot Stitch, (wound)Open Work EmbroideryOpen Work EmbroideryRussian PatternSatin StitchSpot StitchSouth Kensington StitchSouth Kensington Outline StitchStar StitchStem StitchStem StitchTapestry StitchTent StitchVelvet StitchVictoria PatternWheel StitchWound Stitch

The Beginners Guide To The SECRETS of EMBROIDERY

The original edition of this Rare book was printed in 1915

By Mary Symonds.

171 Pages of instructions, with illustrations, diagrams and examples.

For anyone who wants to learn embroidery.

The object of this book is to give sufficient knowledge of Embroidery to enable the

student to become an expert both from an artistic as well as a commercial point of view.student to become an expert both from an artistic as well as a commercial point of view.

It is purposely written more or less in outline,

so that the teacher using it may have scope for original thought and individuality ;

at the same time the student should be able to obtain a good grounding

in the craft, even without the aid of an experienced instructor.

The work is therefore carried out in quite an elementary way, starting with the

supposition that the pupil has learned nothing whatever of embroidery.

The historical part has been but sparsely touched upon, and a second, more advanced, The historical part has been but sparsely touched upon, and a second, more advanced,

course will probably be brought out shortly, in which that portion of the

subject will be elaborated.

Designing for embroidery should rightly be studied along with the technique, but

beyond indicating the style of design suitable for various stitches, and illustrating

the method of transferring a pattern to the material, the author has not been

able in so small a volume to enter into " Embroidery Designs," as such.

The illustrations have been chiefly drawn from specimens in the collections at the The illustrations have been chiefly drawn from specimens in the collections at the

Victoria and Albert Museum.