This French site houses some delightful old embroidery patterns . These books have been scanned and are free to download. Most of them are cross stitch designs particularly of alphabets. Anyone who loves old samplers will like these but there are some designs for other counted techniques too. On another …
I found this story reported yesterday online in Time. In Unravelling the Myth of Quilts and the Underground Railroad oral historian Laurel Horton tries to trace and debunk the story of how coded signs on quilts helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad. Quilters will find this interesting.
I know Monday morning is not the time to say grab a cuppa but yesterday afternoon browsing led me to discover these sites. These are ideal for anyone interested in the history of fashion accessories or Crazy quilters who are designing embroidery motifs of fans. These sites are great visual …
Art in Needlework by Lewis F Day and Mary Buckle is a 326 page book published in 1907. This complete book is online and free to download from the Internet Archive site. You can download it in PDF format or if you just want to browse the book first and …
I still get lost on the NYPL Digital Gallery site. This morning I am running late because of a section of the site titled Dress and Fashion: Design and Manufacture Click on the collection contents link and you will be lost. Not lost in the site because of bad navigation …
This Index of charts for medieval middle eastern counted-thread embroidery will have immediate appeal for many historical embroiderers. These charts graphed by Rosemary Stecher are also useful for anyone interested in including some traditional work or reinterpreting traditional designs in contemporary samplers.
I have found two ebooks the first is John Taylor’s The Needles Excellency: A New Booke wherin are diuers Armirable Workes wrought with the Needle (1631) includeds the Poem In Praise of the Needle and contains needlework patterns for blackwork, cross-stitch, and lace designs. The other is in the collection …
