Creative Stitches - Edith John - embroidery

Creative Stitches

by Edith John

published by Batsford, London, 2nd impression 1969

By line drawings and, and with the help of a brief text, Edith John shows how well-known stitches can be varied and developed into exciting new stitches. The reader sees how fresh stitches can be created to carry out most appropriately the spirit of a piece of embroidery which is itself creative.

Individual chapters are on: experimental embroidery, flat stitches, chained stitches, looped stitches, knotted stitches, couching, the sewing machine group of stitches, canvas work and gold work.

20 pages of b&w photographs  of creative stitchery

B&W diagrams of the stitches

Hardcover, 656 gms, 112 pages.

Condition: DJ has some wear around edges and spine edges, price clipped. Name inside front cover. Hardcover, pages and binding are in very good condition. Pages are clean, bright & uncreased. Note: the brown colour on the second photo is shadowing from the scanner - the pages are white and not at all browned from age.