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STITCHING A
LEGACY:
American Needlework Projects and Stories by Piecework Magazine in association with the Peabody Essex Museum. This collaborative effort is a lavishly photographed collection of needlework projects inspired by objects in the museum's collection, all of which will be included in the museum's 2001 exhibition titled Painted with Thread: The Art of American Embroidery. Twenty-four projects include embroidery, needlepoint, cross stitch, whitework, beading, and tassel making. Clothbound, 128 pages, $39.95 |
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CROSS
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ALPHABETS &
TREASURES ed. by Jules and Kaethe Kliot The sources for this book include Cross Stitch Embroidery by Harriet Cushman Wilkie (1899) and The Embroiderer's Alphabet published by Dollfus-Mieg & Cie (DMC) during this same period. The charted designs collected for this book represent the rich variety of alphabets and motifs popular at the turn of the last century, including patterns associated with ethnic embroidery, as well as pictorial scenes and alphabets. 144 pages, softbound, $20.00
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ALPHABETS
ANCIENS
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CROIX By Veronique Maillard (transl: Old Alphabets for Cross Stitch Embroidery). A nice collection of charted alphabets from historical European sources, from simple to ornate, ranging from 5 lines to 77 lines, with ideas for their creative use. French text, 158 pages, hardbound, $55.00 |
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MERKLAPPEN
MOTIEVEN (Embroidery Motifs from Dutch Samplers) by Albarta Meulenbelt-Nieuwburg. This is a reprint of the 1974 classic. This Dutch edition has hundreds of motifs graphed from early Dutch samplers, with chapters on birds, plants, animals, geometric designs, symbolic motifs, human figures, alphabets, and more. 200 pages, Dutch text, softbound, $38.00 |
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Among the earliest of pattern books the original 1530's collection represents not only the early years of recorded patterns but the early years of printing, the wood block plates reflecting medieval art and imagery, ranging from mythical beasts, florals, cherubs, alphabets, and geometrics, in this extraordinary collection of four pattern books. This collection will appeal to embroiderers and costumers, as well as to people involved in historic medieval re-enactments. 144 pages, softbound, $20.00 |
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