Art and Stitchery New Directions Author:Gloria Katzenberg The current popularity of embroidery in all forms has produced skilled workers who are eagerly looking for new and original ideas. This book, which presents stitchery as an art rather than as a craft, is intended to stimulate originality by using different techniques and materials. — Gloria Katzenberg is a professional designer, an artist w... more »ho works with a needle rather than a brush. Her work is intended for decoration and has no other use -- no cushions or handbags here. The pieces are really collages, using buttons, beads, scraps of metal, wood and fabric as well as threads and background fabric of many kinds. Although put together with classics stitches, the result is totally unlike crewel or needlepoint as known today. She has named each design as a painter might title an abstract, but the names are only faintly suggestive of representational ideas. Her hope is that her pieces, instead of being copied, will suggest ideas truly original, one-of-a-kind embroideries to many people for whom conventional ideas are no longer enough.« less