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Lisbeth Perrone's Folk Art in Needlepoint and Cross-stitch
Lisbeth Perrone's Folk Art in Needlepoint and Crossstitch Author:Lisbeth Perrone "With this book, you can re-create designs, in your own needlepoint or cross-stitch, that may have originally appeared on a wedding dress from Palestine, an American Indian moose hide shirt, ankle bands from China, tablecloths from South America, samplers from Scandinavia or Mexico ... — Lisbeth Perrone, one of the world's most talented ... more »needlewomen, has selected and adapted folk-art embroidery from the collection of the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The patterns are all figurative -- birds, flowers, human figures and animals that have been used throughout the ages in folk-art embroidery -- and not only are they illustrated in full color, but there is a color work chart, a yarn count, and a description of each design.« less