Stitches New Approaches (Batsford Classic Embroidery)

By Jan Beaney

Book Overview

Stitches: New Approaches, a classic text by one of the UK's leading embroidery experts, aims to encourage embroiderers to enjoy stitches and stitching, and to explore the endless range of effects and textures that can be created. This book looks at over four hundred stitches and their variations. Each stitch is first presented in the traditional way of working, but suggestions follow for spacing and working it in more unusual ways, and with a wide variety of yarns. A section on design starting points introduces the reader to the principles of observing natural objects and interpreting them for embroidery. Jan Beaney's book will help embroiderers go beyond traditional methods of working and reach towards new, more imaginative approaches. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713488875
• ISBN13: 9780713488876
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: B T Batsford Ltd
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.8" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

An interesting design book

Stitches: New Approaches is a reprint of a book published in 1985. It is not intended to be a comprehensive stitch dictionary, but rather, a guide to what can be done with a stitch and some imagination. Each stitch has a large number of photographs, all in black and white. I would have loved to have seen the original works in color, but the black and white images focus on the stitch as well as the texture. There is also advice on developing a design, starting from sketching. This is intended as a design text, so there are no patterns included. The goal of this book seems to be to provide a solid base on which to develop a stitched design.