Embroidery
Subtitle: a step-by-step guide to more than 200 stitches
By: Lucinda Ganderton
Publisher: DK
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781465436030
Subjects: Stitches (Sewing); Embroidery
Description: "Embroidery" is the ultimate stitch dictionary and the ideal guide to embroidery, whatever your level of expertise. The perfect reference guide to needlework, "Embroidery" is a comprehensive guide to inspire and inform sewers of all levels. Find advice on which thread, needles, or fabrics work with which techniques, and take a look at an incredible 200 stitches with levels of difficulty, step-by-step instructions, and ideas on where and how to use them. This practical guide covers sewing tips for dressmaking, needlepoint, and embroidery stitches, with detailed information simply presented in illustration-rich pages. With "Embroidery" it's easy to find exactly which stitch is right for your next sewing project.
Notes: Originally published as Stitch sampler: United States, 1999.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Materials, tools, and techniques; title: Gallery of stitches; title: Line and border stitches; title: Filling stitches; title: Openwork stitches; title: Needlepoint stitches.