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The Embroiderer's Workbook

Jan Messent

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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.

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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.

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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.

Key concepts: Workbook, Section (typography), Advice (programming), Thread (computing), Engineering drawing, Engineering, Architecture, Visual arts

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