I discovered Therese de Dillmont’s “Encyclopedia of Needlework” on project Gutenburg.
This book is a needlework classic so I was delighted to discover it is freely available. I trawl old books like this for stitch varieties and stitches that are no longer in common use. Often too stitches are referred to by different names. Usage or a particular name for a stitch is always an interesting topic to attempt to trace. Source material such as these publications are relevant to anyone who has an interest in textile history but also much of the information they contain is still applicable to practice today.
Corina – thansk for the link – I am sure I blogged it a good while back but often things get lost in the archives ao its a good rimner to people – its a great site and I often check it
Sharon, I just found out about this site (maybe you know it already)
http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/
If you need anything about the original text in french, please, ask only!
Odile
Hi Sharon – I have just loaded my running stitch sample – cheers Dale