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The Arco Encyclopedia of Embroidery Stitches
The Arco Encyclopedia of Embroidery Stitches Author:Anne Butler Anne Butler brings together some 500 individual stitches used in embroidery through the centuries. Each example has been worked by the author and photographed, to the same scale, to illustrate the complete stitch. Accompanying each photograph are diagrams explaining the step by step method of working the stitch. — For ease of reference and ... more »identification, Anne Butler has grouped the stitches under families and these include: Line; Couching; Stem; Running and back; Herringbone; Feather; Fly; Cretan; Buttonhole; Chain; Straight (including cross); Single unit (such as woven wheels); Edgings; and Filling stitches.
The 6 color plates show the working of the more complex stitches. This definitive encyclopedia of embroidery stitches will be of the utmost value to everyone interested in embroidery, regardless of age or ability, and it is a book which no student of embroidery, at any level, should be without.
448 photographs, 1000 line diagrams, 6 color plate, includes index.« less