Designing for embroidery from ancient and primitive sources

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Messent, jan.

Crafts & Hobbies

Studio Vista

<p>A basic course in embroidery discusses pattern, color, drawing, and design, fabrics and stitches, counted-thread embroidery, and other aspects of the craft, with exercises to improve skills and ideas for projects</p>

The Embroiderer's Workbook (Color Craft Workbooks)

St Martins Pr

Embroidery & nature

B.T. Batsford

Embroidery & Nature (A Batsford Craft Paperback)

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

Book is divided into the following sections: A Brief Survey; Sources of Design; styles of Design; Word Associations as Ideas for Design; Perspective and Depth; Scale; Some Simple Ways of Making a Design; Plans; The Materials of Architecture; Doors and Arches; Windows; Stairs an Steps; Decoration; Spires, Towers and Domes; Architecture in the Environment; Ruins; and Nature Takes Over. Illustrated with 138 line drawings, 132 black and white photos, and six color photos.

Embroidery and Architecture

Charles T. Branford

Jan Messent covers all aspects of design for those wishing to make animals a main theme in their embroidery:  where to look for ideas, how to record them, and how to translate them into decorative and practical designs: these designs can then be interpreted in numerous embroidery techniques such as canvaswork, black work, quilt and applique. Book includes line illustrations of animals, many of them stylized and all drawn embroiders in mind.

Embroidery and Animals

This complete embroidery course is designed to help embroiderers find ideas and carry them through to a finished piece of work. The book is divided into work units including sections on pattern, colour, drawing and design, fabrics and stitches, and one technique - counted thread - is used to explore design possibilities. Each unit contains exercises and starting points for projects, and a section of 'themes and challenges' will help embroiderers to develop and appraise their own work. Finally, advice on display shows how a good piece of embroidery can best be presented in a professional manner. Other books by the same author include "Embroidery and Nature", "Embroidery and Animals", "Embroidery and Architecture" and "Have You Any Wool".

The Embroiderer's Workbook (Crafts Colour Series)

Chrysalis Books

A book aimed at teaching children how to knit. It explains what is needed, how to make the stitches, and how to knit in two colours. There are 16 patterns to make.

Children's Book of Knitting

Arts & Photography

The Embroiderer's Workbook

<p>Internationally renowned embroiderer. Jan Messent teaches how to create highly original and personal designs for both hand and machine embroidery.</p>

Jan Messent's World of Embroidery

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