This month the On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics has loaded 3 more free ebooks that are of interest to stitchers. Dentelle Teneriffe, is part of the early DMC library. This book on Teneriffe lace work is of course in French, but the illustrations are understood …
The Gutenberg Project has an ebook by Grace Christie online. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving . Although published originally in 1912 this book is a total gem don’t miss archiving a copy on your computer and printing out sections as you need it. This book is really a needlework classic that …
Many quilters ask why is it that textiles can not get the same price as paintings or the ‘fine arts’. Why are they valued as lesser items because they are textiles? This is an important question because so many textile artists battle to earn even a part time living from …
Many tatters will welcome this list of titles of Tatting Books in the Public Domain. The books and magazines are archived in PDF files so you will need Acrobat reader which is free. Instructions are on the site.
I was browsing what titles have been added in September to the Digital Archive of documents. Half way down the page the September 1919 issue of Needlecraft Magazine are available in two PDF files Also available in three parts is a correspondence course written in 1952 by Baumann and Heary …
The Gutenberg Project has a copy of William Holmes 1984 book A Study of the Textile Art in its Relation to the Development of Form and Ornament. This classic has an emphasis on form in textiles particularly basket weaving.
New to the Gutenberg Project is a new free ebook Jacobean Embroidery by Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam and A. F. Morris Hands for download.
