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Goldwork Embroidery: Designs and Projects
by
Mary Brown
Ancient European tradition lives on in goldwork, an art form encompassing embroidery with all types of metal threads, not only gold. Once reserved for royalty and other aristocrats, goldwork is now available to all through this fully illustrated guide. Part historical reference, part project plan book, and fully stuffed with pattern templates, it is an authoritative source...more
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
August 1st 2007
by Sally Milner
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Overall I'd call this worth picking up, even if you already have a bit of a goldwork library. There are some unusual techniques described and the descriptions are actually pretty good, oddly I think this is the first book I've ever seen which tells you *how* to do S-ing rather then just tell you it's something you can do and maybe show you a finished bit of it.
Things to get a bit repetitive though (there are some embroidery stitches which require separate instructions based on angle ...more
Things to get a bit repetitive though (there are some embroidery stitches which require separate instructions based on angle ...more
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