Traditional Motifs for Needlework and Knitting

By Carola Forg

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0937274658
• ISBN13: 9780937274651
• Release Date: December 1899
• Publisher: Lark Books
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.5" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A Cross-Stitcher's Delight

This is a wonderful little book filled with designs dating back to the Middle Ages. They are not complicated, and easy to work using just one or two colors of floss. There are many beautiful mirror-image designs, as well as recognizable flowers and animals. The book includes border designs, as well as designs that form corners - good for table linens. The possiblities are endless. I have cross-stitched many for gifts, and they have been well received.

Many of these motifs are ideal for mineature samplers

This collection of more than 250 cross stitch designs date to European patterns of five hundred years ago. Most charts are 1 color, some 2, but are suited to be stitched in many colors or even variegated floss. Designs include: borders, medallions, urns, flowers, snowflakes, cloverleaves, people and animals. All of the designs are simple cross stitch, some with outline stitches, suitable for beginning projects. This is a rather small book, but packed full of inspirational designs to make into a great many handmade projects.