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    Contemporary Embroidery Design
    Contemporary Embroidery Design
    Contemporary Embroidery Design
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    Contemporary Embroidery Design

    By Joan Nicholson

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    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781473355309
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      Contemporary Embroidery Design - Joan Nicholson

      CONTEMPORARY

      EMBROIDERY

      DESIGN

      by

      JOAN NICHOLSON

      1 Part of an eighteenth century patchwork quilt embroidered in silk and velvet, showing 24 of some 300 squares. Though we no longer have the leisure or inclination to make an article so large, a small cushion or a chair seat made in patchwork has great charm and is delightful in a contemporary setting

      FOREWORD

      BY MAURICE WHEATLEY

      Senior Art Inspector to the London County Council

      Although this is not the first book to be written about embroidery, it is, as far as I know, the first to be addressed to Everywoman who may have an interest in needlecraft. This compact, well-illustrated volume contains a message for the housewife, the business woman and also for the teacher; it is a message that stresses the need for intelligent approach to embroidery design, through the proper use of materials and traditional stitchery. The book is written without affectation, and with a wealth of inspiration and informative guidance. The relatively easy path, towards the production of refined, elegant and useful everyday objects, is illustrated with articles suitable and beautifully made with a feeling for contemporary design. This is not a new creed, but rather the rebirth of an established one, wherein new materials and well-established methods are combined to produce embroidery for today’s use which is both lovely and exciting. The challenge that every piece of household linen could be graced with some decoration is one that today’s needlewoman can meet with every degree of inventiveness, through what has been described as creative leisure-time occupation. The author extends an invitation to the reader; her book offers an approach to embroidery design which is essentially practical, and she shows that the forms most suitable for application to this craft are formalised shapes rather than slavish copies from nature.

      I commend this volume wholeheartedly to those who wish to devote thought to a craft which demands a degree of fastidious care in its execution, and which is so much a part of our heritage.

      March, 1954

      CONTENTS

      Foreword by Maurice Wheatley, Senior Art Inspector to the London County Council

      List of Photographic Illustrations

      GENERAL INTRODUCTION

      HISTORIC BACKGROUND

      VARIOUS KINDS OF EMBROIDERY APPROPRIATE TODAY

      MATERIALS AVAILABLE TO THE MODERN CRAFTSWOMAN

      Colour – Textures – Exploiting Patterned Materials – Choosing Suitable Fabrics

      HOW TO BEGIN

      Why not a design of your own?

      COLOUR

      TYPES OF EMBROIDERY:

      MAKING TOYS—THREE-DIMENSIONAL EMBROIDERIES

      MAKING ORNAMENTAL BOXES

      PIN-CUSHIONS

      FLAT STITCHES

      DRAWN FABRIC WORK

      CANVAS WORK

      QUILTING

      Bibliography

      The Needlework Development Scheme

      Index

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      The following is a list of photographic illustrations only

      CONTEMPORARY

      EMBROIDERY DESIGN

      GENERAL INTRODUCTION

      Perhaps the most important quality needed in a competent embroideress is an inquiring mind, an awareness of things. She should be capable of realising the limitations as well as seeing the possibilities of her craft.

      Today the embroideress has at her disposal a positive gamut of materials, for modern science has made it possible to produce dyes in every conceivable hue, and the fabrics, on which to execute the embroideries,

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