Encyclopedia of Embroidery Stitches, Including Crewel

by Marion Nichols

Book Overview

Let one of the most accomplished and creative crewel and embroidery experts into you home to teach you the ABCs of these increasingly popular handicrafts. Just turn the pages of this encyclopedic handbook and you will find her precise explanations and clear illustrations on how to work 178 different stitches and their variations. Logically organized for easy use, the book is divided into ten sections. Each is devoted to one of the basic families of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486229297
• ISBN13: 9780486229294
• Release Date: June 1974
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.2" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Marvelous

Blessed is the day i found this book! It has 178 different stitches, it’s logically organized and easy to use. The text is lucid and clear with elegant illustrations of both front and back of each stitch. The book opens flat and the pages are bound in ‘signatures’ meaning they won’t fall out.

Great for the novice

This book is extremely useful for the novice and experienced alike. I was extremely excited to see the illustrations for the back of the stitches. Would recommend this book to anyone interested in embroidery it's nice to have a reference book on hand that is so thoroughly detailed.

Fabulous guide to stitches

I have a few books with stitches that are all color photos, this one is all drawn pictures, easy to follow, but quite different. I especially like the "rhythm" sections and the personal comments. Perhaps not a beginner book, but it fits really nice into my growing embroidery book library! Anna

Excellent for Instruction and Reference

This is a wonderful resource for a new stitcher or one with experience who wants to learn new stitches. The really neat part is that she illustrates the BACK of the stitch as well. This is, I believe, out of print, so grab one while you can.