A to Z Whitework - Country Bumpkin Publications

$28.00

Manufactured by: Country Bumpkin

Whitework is a category of embroidery emcompassing many styles of techniques reflecting the different cultures inspired from working with white cloth and white thread. (You can see many of these styles in the portraits of nobility who wore their finest clothing for the painting.) When delicate cotton fabrics and threads became available from India by doors opened by the English traders the public went crazy for cotton (and abandoned linen) for their fabric of choice.

Ayrshire Embroidery and Broderie Angliase are two forms of hand embroidery on these delicate cottons white made the transition to machined embroideries onto today's machine embroidered Swiss Embroideries that all heirloom sewers love to attach to their garments. This book, another fantastic volume in the A to Z series, covers the styles and techniques of every form of whitework embroidery from:

Ayshire Embroidery - Scottish Embroidry

Broderie Angliase - English Embroidery

Candelwicking - American style of tufted embroidery

Carrickmacross Embroidery - Embroidery on netted ground

Cutwork - Button-hole stitch worked on fabric & cut to form a style of lace

Hedebo Embroidery - Danish Embroidery

Madeira Embroidery - Portugese Embroidery

Mountmellick Embroidery - Irish Embrodery

Shadow Work - Best instructions for this technique

Tambour Embroidery - Chain stitch worked with hook on net or fabric, beading on fabric

Treat yourself to this volume which explains all of the hand embroidery techniques which are rapidly dying out due to the proliferation of machined substitutes.