Beginner's Guide to Crewel Embroidery Beginner's Guide to Crewel Embroidery By Jane Rainbow Publisher Search Press Edition Paperback Size 204 x 260 mm Illustrations 165 Pages 64 Jane Rainbow is a successful professional embroiderer, teacher and consultant. She designs and markets a range of kits, has produced her own crewel embroidery video and runs workshops for students. She exhibits regularly at exhibitions where she demonstrates her skills, showing how to build up beautiful pictures using a range of stitches. Jane Rainbow shows how to create a selection of beautiful designs, using ten basic stitches. Clear step-by-step photographs illustrate how to develop embroidery skills, and how to create wonderful floral pictures which are worked in wool and soft colours. Starting with just four of these stitches, Jane clearly demonstrates, with detailed step-by-step photographs, how to work up a complete project. Instructions follow on showing how to stretch and mount your first embroidery. Using further projects she helps you build up skills, introducing new stitches in each section. Line drawings accompany each design and are used as a guide for the stitches. The designs and colours used are traditional - reminiscent of the embroidery worked by embroiderers during the Tudor period, wonderful floral pictures worked in wool and soft colours. The book is a comprehensive introduction to this lovely technique and at the same time it offers embroiderers practical help with presentation and finishing. Jane Rainbow has a fairly high profile. She runs a successful business from her home in Stow-on-the-Wold, selling kits and her video. Crewel embroidery is one of the rising trends in the embroidery market Comprehensive, clear step-by-step illustrations show the embroiderer how to build up skills - easily Book Contents Introduction, Materials and equipment, First project, Using stem stitch, fly stitch, buttonhole stitch, French knots, Second project, Using split stitch, chain stitch, satin stitch, bullion knot stitch, Third project, Using soft shading, laid filling, detached buttonhole and spider's web, Index. The Textile Directory Bookstore postal charges: UK 1 book = £2.50 2 books = £4.50 3 books = £7.00 4 books or more = £9.00 Overseas 1 book = £6.00 2 books = £10.00 3 books = £14.00 4 books or more = £18.00 Price: £8.95