Painting with Thread: Simple Embroidered Pictures to Make and Cherish
British artist Nicol combines watercolor with embroidery techniques stitchery, stumpwork, needle lace, and trapunto to create unique embroidered pictures on silk. In Painting with Thread, she leads the reader through a workshop in designing embroidered pieces and mastering painting and embroidery techniques. Also included is a stitch library, demonstrating how each stitch might be used to obtain a desired effect in a thread painting, and a project section of 14 thread paintings with step-by-step instructions. This will appeal to intermediate and advanced embroiderers and is highly recommended for large public libraries and subject collections.Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.