Embroidery Books

A practical, step-by-step guide which shows clearly how to create beautiful raised and padded embroideries.

Kay Dennis is passionate about stumpwork. This intricate, raised and padded embroidery has its origins in the seventeenth century, and is enjoying a revival amongst embroiderers and lacemakers. It is wonderfully versatile and will appeal both to the novice and imaginative needleworker. Using a mix of flat, padded, wired and free-standing elements, it employs a wide range of embroidery techniques.

This comprehensive and colourful book covers both basic and needle lace techniques - sections on each containing a series of elaborate step-by-step demonstrations showing how to work individual techniques, followed by a project combining all the methods. Kay takes inspiration from a variety of sources and her designs include animals, flowers, fruits and insects popular motifs in the seventeenth century. She also creates contemporary designs and there are advanced projects on landscape and figurative work. A gallery of Kay's work is included to stimulate and inspire the reader.

In this wonderful workbook, Jenny features fresh applications for the ever-popular bullion stitch. Using this stitch, as well as some knots and satin stitches, she has created many attractive designs in raised embroidery.

This is the first book on the subject of recycling materials in your embroidery projects. Techniques for hand and machine embroidery are covered, and there are plenty of ideas for using different types of salvaged material such as fabric, paper, dried flowers, tree bark, metal waste, plastic, and broken jewellery.

Book is illustrated with beautiful colour photographs of work by some of the leading contemporary embroiderers.

Judith Baker Montano brings you this elegant spiralbound stitch guide that includes all the step-by-step instructions and illustrations you'll need to create masterpieces in embroidery.

This book is imaginative and has adventuresome stitching for all needle artists, from beginners to advanced. A highly-recommended book for all levels of embroiderers.

A practical guide to making embroidered boxes suitable for absolute beginners or for more experienced embroiderers wanting to expand their repertoire.

Step-by-step instructions are given to create beautiful boxes and there is detailed information on making items such as bags and purses that can be embellished with creative stitchery, all to a professional finish.

This is a stunning collection of pieces from some of Australia's best-known embroiderers all created around the theme of the heart. Many of them have experienced firsthand the loss of a family member or close friend from heart disease, and see their contribution as a way of helping the Heart Foundation in its efforts to prevent heart disease or stroke.

Proceeds from the sale of this attractive book go to the Heart Foundation.

Featuring a dazzling range of Indian and European hand embroidery techniques—combined with free-motion machine embroidery, quilting, and beading—this beautifully-illustrated book includes more than 15 projects and a wealth of tips and advice.

The book is a rich source of information, practical guidance, and inspiration, ideal for embroiderers and quilters who want to expand their repertoire of techniques and bring originality to their work. Combining Indian and Western hand embroidery, quilting, and beading, Munni Srivastava creates unique pieces inspired by a variety of cultural influences. Some of the embroidery techniques may be familiar to embroiderers and, similarly, the patchwork techniques to quilters, but the fascination lies in their fusion and in the exciting work it produces.

Book includes sections on: Indian embroidery techniques; Shisha work—kantha quilting; motifs adapted from traditional Indian designs; free-motion machine embroidery; patchwork techniques; design advice for the successful combining of techniques; and more than 15 projects, from cushions to wall hangings. Plenty of advice is offered on the presentation and framing of embroidered textiles as well as their conservation.

Judith shows you how to create floral scenes in thread, ribbon, and more. She offers a fresh collection of embroidery stitches, along with her own stitching wisdom and creative design ideas, for beautiful handworked pieces to enhance your home, clothing, and special gifts.

Goldwork, the technique of embroidering with metal threads, has a long history. In its traditional form, as used on historical costumes and for the Church, goldwork has always been expensive and precious. But today, there are cheaper versions of metallic threads available and now anyone can create a glittering work of art.

This guide presents a history of goldwork, helpful instructions on a multitude of different techniques, a chapter on embroidering for the Church, and guidance for the use of jewels, glass and stones. It demonstrates the craft of goldwork, with its many possibilities.

[First title in the Master class Embroidery Series]

This book provides a fascinating insight into the beauty of flowers in all their different habitats, with step-by-step advice on how to create your own embroidered floral series.

With instructions and lots of iron-on transfers, this book is suitable for a child aged 9-12 learning the art of embroidery for the first time. Patterns include teddy bears, clowns, suns, stars, animals and more.

Sue Dove creates glorious, vibrant, freestyle embroideries using a simple satin stitch, and this book contains an inspirational collection of her exciting work as well as basic step-by-step instructions.

Her highly-readable text encourages the reader to develop their own talents and create very special embroideries.

These two highly-respected embroiderers give a unique vision of how stitching can be used to interpret designs.

Using the wide range of fabrics, threads and materials now available, the authors give aspiring and knowledgeable alike, the inspiration to experiment with the basic hand stitches to create infinite stitch interpretations.

Includes over 90 sumptuous photographs, a comprehensive stitch glossary, and a gallery containing an overview of the work of leading embroiderers.

In this book, Janet Edmonds explores the textile design processes and building methods that take the image off the drawing board and into three-dimensions. Whether working with the discipline of geometric shapes or with the freedom of free-form construction, the author shows how textile artists and embroiderers can build and shape three-dimensional structures and combine them with decorative surfaces.

This is the first book to cover three-dimensional textiles in detail. Topics covered include: Design; Materials and equipment; Constructing with flat pieces; Continuous lengths; Manipulated methods; Beads; Finishing Techniques.