Embroidery


Doodle Stitching: Fresh & Fun Embroidery for Beginners
The Royal School of Needlework Book of Embroidery: A Guide To Essential Stitches, Techniques And Projects
Paint with Thread: A Step-by Step Guide to Embroidery: Through the Seasons
A-Z of Embroidery Stitches
Embroidery: A Step-by-Step Guide to More Than 200 Stitches
Doodle Stitching: the motif collection
The Embroidery Stitch Bible
Colour Confidence in Embroidery (Milner Craft Series)
Sublime Stitching: Hundreds of Hip Embroidery Patterns and How-To
Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches
Modern Folk Embroidery: 30 Contemporary Projects for Folk Art Inspired Designs
The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook
Mystical Stitches: Embroidery for Personal Empowerment and Magical Embellishment
The Embroidered Garden: Stitching through the Seasons of a Flower Garden (Make Good: Japanese Craft Style)
18th Century Embroidery Techniques
Clare Hunter
Sewing is a way to mark our existence on cloth: patterning our place in the world, voicing our identity, sharing something of ourselves with others and leaving the indelible evidence of our presence in stitches held fast by our touch.
Clare Hunter, Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

Jennie Batchelor
Needlework is a retreat from the white noise of everyday life. It is also, crucially, a choice rather than the social requirement it was for women in the 18th and 19th centuries...It is not something we do because we don't have better things to do with our time, but because we find it a creative, mindful and stimulating activity that lets our minds wander as our fingers track over what we're working on. ...more
Jennie Batchelor, Jane Austen Embroidery: Regency Patterns Reimagined for Modern Stitchers

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