After yesterday’s post about articles in the V&A journal I went poking around the net a little further and discovered The Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture houses an online copy of Owen Jones classic The Grammar of Ornament This book is beautifully illustrated and influences textile design to this …
Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont (1846-1890) has been published online as a web site. Usually online books are delivered as PDF files which are easy to download but still a bit unwieldy and costly to print out. It is really handy to have version as a website, as you can …
This Chest of Needlework Books contains links to free books that are online that are about sewing and embroidery. Although many of the books can be found elsewhere on the web, each book is divided into chapters that you can print out separately. This is very useful as it means …
For anyone interested in samplers and their history I discovered the 1926 edition of Leigh Ashton’s Samplers Selected and Described as a digitised book free online. The overview from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries covers primarily English samplers but European and American samplers are also included. The book contains …
As I mentioned on Friday, Jerry is recording a CD and we have had a few days in Sydney. Since both Design 08 and Sydney Biennale is on I was not short of places to visitor things to see. Between visits to Berkelouw Books which by far got most of …
Recently I have been digging out a list of Needlework books online for the stitch along that is being worked by members of the Hand Embroidery group in the Stitchin Fingers Textile Community. It will be starting next week! Yikes that sounds close to me … I am really looking …
Gardens, flora and fauna have long been a source of inspiration to stitchers. Floral themes run through out the history of textiles and embroidery. Many of the early embroidery designs were adapted from early herbals. Stitchers still delight in floral themes today. In 2001 an exhibition that explored the relationship …
