English EMBROIDERED PICTURES-Creative Embroidery Design

 

~ EMBROIDERED PICTURES ~
by Dorothy Tucker

This is a beautiful English book for the creative embroiderer. It contains inspiring historical and contemporary examples of pictorial embroidery, from an ancient Peruvian mantle to twentieth-century free stitchery from France and all are described in their cultural context with information on fabrics, threads and stitches. The contents are:

• Preface
• A Paracas Mantle Peru, c.600BC - Stem Stitch
• It's Alright Primmy Chorley, 1991 - Stem, running and buttonhole stitch
• The Bayeux Tapestry France, 11th century - Laid and couched work with stem stitch
• The Skater Norma Anderson, 1991 - Laid and couched work with stem stitch
• One Thousand Years of Monarchy Audrey Walker, 1973 - Variety of stitch with fabric collage
• Eugenia's Lemon Tree Audrey Walker, 1990 - Layered stitch
• Red Kite Nicola Henley, 1988
• Untitled 1 Nicola Henley, 1984
• Untitled 2 Nicola Henley, 1984
• A Kantha Bangladesh, Traditional - Running stitch on quilted cotton fabric
• Kantha Cat Vanessa Stanfield, 1990
• Kantha Cat Tablecloth Vanessa Stanfield, 1992 - Running stitch on quilted cotton fabric
• Women and Children III Jean Draper, 1991 - Running stitch on quilted cotton fabric and felt
• Boston Fishing Lady New England, 1745-55 - Tent stitch on canvas
• Protecting the General D.R. Wagner, 1985 - Tent stitch on canvas
• Feeding Chickens Salley Mavor, 1986 - Fabric relief with stitch
• Abraham and Isaac England, 1625 - Raised embroidery as a bookbinding
• The Spencers Gardening Ann V. Sutton, 1984 - Modern stumpwork
• The Magic Garden Rebecca Crompton, 1934 - Appliqué and stitch
• L'Heure bleue Lucienne Lanski, 1983
• Liberty Tree Lucienne Lanski, 1977 - 'Wild Embroidery'
• A Furisode Kimono Japan, Late Edo Period - Silk and metal threads on gold leaf
• Head of Christ Beryl Dean, 1984 - Couching over gold

Condition: this is a pictorial hardcover book. The cover is very good with just some light surface scuffs. The inside is very good.
Publisher: A & C Black (Publishers) Limited, London, 1994, first publication.
ISBN: 0-7136-3737-4 / 0713637374.
Size: 22.5 by 28.2cm : 8¾ by 11¼ inches.
Pages: 80.
Weight: 650g.
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