New Ideas in Goldwork

by Tracy A. Franklin

It's the best of the classic and contemporary styles, and a beautiful exploration of a lovely, shimmering needlework technique. Embroiderers will find endless inspiration in the many innovative ways teacher and expert Tracy Franklin combines gold with other metal-threadwork. Dip into reference ideas taken from notebooks, cuttings and new and old embroideries. Lavish color photographs and dozens of line diagrams help teach the basics, from design to simple padding of gold and metal threads. Master two basic techniques of laid work and cut purl these form the fundamentals for doing a design correctly. Follow the illustrations and instructions on different stitch types, including how to apply gold and metal threads in inventively intricate ways. The incredible color, detail, and good design are absolutely exciting!

Genres: Crafts

128 pages, Hardcover

First published March 28, 2003

Reviews

[Kelly (Maybedog) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice extensive photo chart of types of gold wire thread accompanies good information about the various types of wires. There are also samples of different techniques, although in really ugly mostly random patterns. I guess creative is one word from it.

This is mostly a book of artwork. (There are only a couple of pseudo projects which have barely there instructions called "order of work" in one of them) It's all interesting if not necessarily appealing. I really like pieces The Hare and Unbelievable Sort of Silence. But there just isn't enough here to justify such a huge book.