Discover the classic beauty of Schwalm embroidery, with its surface stitches, pulled fabric, drawn thread, needlelace, and needleweaving. Featuring traditional design elements (tulips, flowers, pine cones, fruit, and doves), the projects in this unique, fully illustrated collection include table linens, a pincushion with matching needlecase, a sampler, and more. With a stitch glossary and designs suitable for beginners as well as those with experience in Schwalm.

Features needlework from Guimaraes in northern Portugal. This title helps you to learn all you need to know to create your own masterpieces and heirlooms with the step-by-step instructions. It includes a range of projects, large and small, for beginners through to advanced stitchers.

Brimming with intricate drawings, color photos, and excerpts from 18th-century writings, this enthralling book is your passport to a bygone age. Fashion and textiles lecturer Gail Marsh offers insights into the lives of 18th-century embroiderers; their equipment, stitches, and threads; and techniques such as working with metal thread and spangles, silk embroidery, tambour, and the forgotten arts of Hollie Point and knotting. A must-have for historical costume creators, collectors, and needlework enthusiasts.

This latest title in the highly successful Ancient Textiles series is the first substantial monograph-length historiography of early medieval embroideries and their context within the British Isles. The book brings together and analyses for the first time all 43 embroideries believed to have been made in the British Isles and Ireland in the early medieval period. New research carried out on those embroideries that are accessible today, involving the collection of technical data, stitch analysis, observations of condition and wear-marks and microscopic photography supplements a survey of existing published and archival sources. The research has been used to write, for the first time, the ‘story’ of embroidery, including what we can learn of its producers, their techniques, and the material functions and metaphorical meanings of embroidery within early medieval Anglo-Saxon society. The author presents embroideries as evidence for the evolution of embroidery production in Anglo-Saxon society, from a community-based activity based on the extended family, to organized workshops in urban settings employing standardized skill levels and as evidence of changing material use: from small amounts of fibers produced locally for specific projects to large batches brought in from a distance and stored until needed. She demonstrate that embroideries were not simply used decoratively but to incorporate and enact different meanings within different parts of society: for example, the newly arrived Germanic settlers of the fifth century used embroidery to maintain links with their homelands and to create tribal ties and obligations. As such, the results inform discussion of embroidery contexts, use and deposition, and the significance of this form of material culture within society as well as an evaluation of the status of embroiderers within early medieval society. The results contribute significantly to our understanding of production systems in Anglo-Saxon England and Ireland.

With this wonderful white embroidery technique one can embroider charming country house cushions and tablecloths. But it is an embroidery for people with inner calm and many time. One embroiders on fine countable linen and must pull threads out of the fabric. So it is a beautiful challenge for experienced embroiderers. In my book I show with a lot of pictures the basic technique and more than 70 beautiful and useful filling stitches. There is a big number of filling stitches, but nevertheless, one uses the same again. And I show these popular patterns with exact instructions. Schwalm embroidery is often combined with darning hemstitches. In this book are the instructions of 10 needleweaving hems + peahole hem. The book is supplemented with some patterns of cushions. In addition, I give tips how to come from the pillow pattern to a pattern for a tablecloth and how to design himselve a Schwalm pattern. I also show 3 beautiful pillow closures for country houme pillows. And I use the filling stitches to cover buttons. This book has 104 pages full of ideas. Inside it is black / white because it is a whitework embroidery and needs no color. And the price of the book is much more positive. Now is the time to try out Schwalm embroidery, enjoy it. You got questions, come to me. Internet address and telephone number is in the book.