The Embroiderer's Garden Author:Thomasina Beck * Reinterpret the patterns and pictures of the garden — * Practical suggestions for creating beautiful and individual pieces — * Superbly illustrated with over 80 colour photographs and 150 line illustrations — * Includes canvaswork, patchwork, quilting, free and machine embroidery, contemporary stumpwork — * Inspiration for lovers of gardening and ... more »embroidery
The garden has long been a favourite source of inspiration for needlework. In this book Thomasina Beck celebrates and illustrates the diversity of the theme in embroidery which mirrors the variety of real gardens. Garden-making and embroidery are highly personal arts, but they are crafts too and 'The Embroiderer's Garden' is full of practical suggestions for creating beautiful and individual pieces by many different methods including canvaswork, patchwork, quilting, free and machine embroidery and contemporary stumpwork.
This superbly illustrated book will enable embroiderers to reinterpret the patterns and pictures of the garden, and render its colours, textures, shapes and patterns in a uniquely satisfying way. From Tudor knots to modern herb gardens, topiary and trellisses, follies and pools, and flowers everywhere in beds, borders, paving and green houses, the glory of the garden can be interpreted in so many ways.
Illustrations from garden books old and new, stitch suggestions for adapting them as patterns and above all the superb colour photographs of the embroideries themselves will charm, instruct and provide further inspiration for gardeners and embroiderers alike.« less