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The RSN Book of Embroidery is an extensive, multi-technique-encompassing reference book that would make a good addition to any needleworker’s bookshelf.
If you’ve wanted the content of the Essential Stitch Guides but were hesitant to collect each individual book, now you can have them all in one more affordable package – and that’s pretty neat!
Beyond a simple stitch dictionary, a technique book can walk you through the basics (and beyond) of a particular embroidery technique. Individual technique books for different types of hand embroidery are fairly common, but imagine having a technique book that covers many of the major genres of hand embroidery all in one spot!
THREADS - Recommended Embroidery Books for Technique and Inspiration Feb 20, 2018
You may have thought to yourself, “I love embroidery and wish I had one book that has everything I could need to know about major techniques.” Look no further than this encyclopedic tome containing 400 pages and more than 2,000 photos and illustrations.
About the Author
Steeped in history with unrivalled expertise in the techniques of hand embroidery, the Royal School of Needlework has taken this captivating, traditional art and made it relevant today. Students can choose to study Short Courses, a Certificate & Diploma, BA (Hons) Degree or gain a Teaching Qualification as well as attend Exhibitions and Talk & Tours.
With over 200 short courses taught across different venues around the world, the Royal School of Needlework has something for everyone. Courses range from stunning Gold and Crewelwork to Blackwork and Silk Shading. Tuition is delivered in small, friendly classes with expert RSN Tutors bringing a wealth of experience, technical knowledge and enthusiasm to each student.
Reviews:
5.0 out of 5 stars Such a beautiful book
I love embroidery and have done it off and on my whole life. This is the very best book I've ever had. Every step is described in detail, and there are clear photos for every single step. Nothing is left to guesswork. There are no vague, incomplete, or inaccurate descriptions or fuzzy photos taken from a bad angle. I wish I'd found this book years ago. It is a treasury of information and beautiful photos of fantastic embroidery. I'd give it 10 stars.
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating and Thorough Book
Terrific Book to learn how to embroider separated by chapters on different embroidery techniqes. This book does not cater to those that only want to do 'folk' embroidery or 'doodling'. While you can see in this heavily illustrated book how to do the minimal stitches that type of embroidery calls for, the actual projects shown are of a higher quality and shown using careful stitching to make beautiful projects, not whimsicle ones. Although the few stitches used in whimsicle designs are taught in this book.I have never had any books published by way of the Royal School of Needlework, but I had been wanting to see one. In this book you get a lot of their smaller books in one. So read the product description carefully to see if you already own all the smaller books as I am not sure how much in the way of new material was added to this book.One of the things that impressed me was something that other embroidery books barely spend time on, this book makes sure it is covered in full, including, for instance, how to set up for embroidery frame or hoop properly to avoid stitching that is being twisted and distorted. After the stitching is complete, if you are taking it to a finisher it will be properly ready for its frame and will look great. The same if you are framing it yourself, you use the same techniques to finish your work of art.Your will see examples for every stitching technique and the most used stitches for that techniqueas well as supplementary stitches for making exquisite pieces of art. This book should be on the books shelf of every serious embroiderer as well as a 'newbie' to the art of embroidery so that they will learn from the best and will push themselves to learn new and better techniqes. While there are some projects in the book, it is not a project book per se. It is an instructional book so that you can do any project that you want to.Do you need this book if you already have a reference book or two to all the stitches? I have found that every large reference work has loads of great information, yet I have never found that they all have each and every stitch and each of the books has a bit different focus. If you can only afford one book, this one would be a terrific one as a reference.
5.0 out of 5 stars You won’t find a more comprehensive book!
This is an extremely comprehensive book covering a vast selection of topics. Crewelwork, Blackwork, Whitework, Silk Shading, Stumpwork, Bead Embroidery, Canvaswork, Goldwork. The examples are clear concise and beautiful. I highly recommend this book. My book arrived with a small tear in the slip jacket but the cover is great.
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Book
If you do any needlework than you need this book. It is beautifully illustrated and has all the stitches for anyone doing embroidery, crewel, or needlepoint using all types of threads and yarns. The illustrations show you step-by-step how to do each stitch. It is a wonderful reference and has tips and techniques to improve your stitching. Also provides historical references. Truly a great reference for any needle artist.
5.0 out of 5 stars Bought as a gift, want one for myself
I purchased this as a gift for a friend who also embroiders. After looking through myself, i’ve also added it to my wishlist! The illustrations are full color and excellent, and the instructions are thorough! Its a great resource!
5.0 out of 5 stars My new definitive embroidery resource
Let me start with a confession: I am very far from a master embroiderer. In fact, most of my projects are table runners and pillows that come from -- gasp -- kits. (High-end kits, mind you -- I follow several Arts & Crafts Era scholars and Roycroft artisans -- but kits nonetheless.) I regularly acquire equipment with which to do my own designs, but I never get around to doing so. Perhaps it's because my Day Job regularly has me start with a blank sheet of paper, so I permit myself the exercise of coloring-in someone else's patterns.Nonetheless I do love embroidery, particularly when it's done well by people who know what they're doing. So I gave myself a present of this book, telling myself that it's always useful to understand the process of creating something even when I'm unlikely to do it myself. Which is another way of saying: It's okay, kid, you can look at a picture book.And OH MY OH MY is this a lovely book. It has helped me to understand how to do a better job on my own simple projects. The book's subtitle is, "a guide to essential stitches, techniques, and projects" and it absolutely delivers on that promise.To begin with, the book is extremely well organized, with hundreds (thousands?) of photos and diagrams to make everything clear. After an introductory section that shows how to frame up and the options for tracing a design (which caused me to put in yet another Bolo order for supplies!), chapters are given over to: crewelwork; canvas work; blackwork; silk shading; gold work; stump work; white work; bead embroidery. Each chapter shares the history of the given technique; its tools and materials; design elements; the stitches, including a "stitch finder;" patterns that show off the differences (some simple, some "...and here is what you can accomplish if you're really good"); starter projects to help you put the lessons to use.These chapters are extensive, and in other hands would be a book unto themselves. For instance, the Silk Shading chapter is 50 pages long, including a section on padding, and another one on adding beads and sequins. It has five projects, from "blue curves" for a beginner, to "autumn leaves." You get everything: a design to trace, color suggestions, advice about stitch order.The book is drool-worthy just for the photos, both historical and "how-to." Accompanying the essay on the history of metal threadwork ("Some of the earliest surviving examples of metal thread work in Great Britain are the textiles associated with Saint Cuthbert that can be seen in the Treasury at Durham Cathedral..."), for example, are _excellent_ photographs that (unlike so many other books) show the detail that a dedicated artist wants to peer at. Why yes, that IS embroidery from the Middle Ages...! The how-to instructions do not skip steps; a section on felt padding has six small, clear photos that show what it looks like from start-to-finish. In the canvaswork chapter, you see both the process (from the needle's eye view on graph paper) and the stitch results, side-by-side: Oh, so THAT is what a double-linked cross looks like.If I have a criticism, it's that in some places the text is a little small and occasionally hard to read.The book is worth the purchase price just for the breadth of embroidery examples, from "earliest example of..." to charming modern designs.Prepare to swoon. I did, over and over.
Not what I'm looking for.
Too advanced for me. No basic sewing technique to learn from this book
Piękna książka
Książka jest bardzo gruba, ma świetne zdjęcia pokazująca różne ściegi i techniki haftu oraz przykłady ich zastosowania. Książka podzielona jest na działy- crewelwork, blackwork, whitework, silk shading, stumpwork, bead embroidery, canvaswork i goldwork i każdy z tych działów jest bardzo dokładnie opisany. Ksiazka jest piękna i jak najbardziej nadaje się również na prezent.
Lovely book
I just got this book and had a look through. I love that it includes little blurbs about the history of different kinds of needlework. The breakdown is great, the examples seem thorough, and the picture quality is excellent. It’s a great resource book, and I’m really glad I bought it
Très intéressant
J'ai acheté ce livre précédent, je l'ai offert à quelqu'un qui le feuilleté chez moi, et donc je l'ai racheté tant il est riche .Une encyclopédie et un excellent livre pour apprendre les différents points, et techniques de la broderie.De plus il est richement illustré en photos et illustrations pour expliquer les points.
exhaustif !
Très complet et très intéressant.
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Imported From: United States
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Description:
Editorial Reviews
Review
The RSN Book of Embroidery is an extensive, multi-technique-encompassing reference book that would make a good addition to any needleworker’s bookshelf.
If you’ve wanted the content of the Essential Stitch Guides but were hesitant to collect each individual book, now you can have them all in one more affordable package – and that’s pretty neat!
Beyond a simple stitch dictionary, a technique book can walk you through the basics (and beyond) of a particular embroidery technique. Individual technique books for different types of hand embroidery are fairly common, but imagine having a technique book that covers many of the major genres of hand embroidery all in one spot!
THREADS - Recommended Embroidery Books for Technique and Inspiration Feb 20, 2018
You may have thought to yourself, “I love embroidery and wish I had one book that has everything I could need to know about major techniques.” Look no further than this encyclopedic tome containing 400 pages and more than 2,000 photos and illustrations.
About the Author
Steeped in history with unrivalled expertise in the techniques of hand embroidery, the Royal School of Needlework has taken this captivating, traditional art and made it relevant today. Students can choose to study Short Courses, a Certificate & Diploma, BA (Hons) Degree or gain a Teaching Qualification as well as attend Exhibitions and Talk & Tours.
With over 200 short courses taught across different venues around the world, the Royal School of Needlework has something for everyone. Courses range from stunning Gold and Crewelwork to Blackwork and Silk Shading. Tuition is delivered in small, friendly classes with expert RSN Tutors bringing a wealth of experience, technical knowledge and enthusiasm to each student.
Reviews:
5.0 out of 5 stars Such a beautiful book
I love embroidery and have done it off and on my whole life. This is the very best book I've ever had. Every step is described in detail, and there are clear photos for every single step. Nothing is left to guesswork. There are no vague, incomplete, or inaccurate descriptions or fuzzy photos taken from a bad angle. I wish I'd found this book years ago. It is a treasury of information and beautiful photos of fantastic embroidery. I'd give it 10 stars.
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating and Thorough Book
Terrific Book to learn how to embroider separated by chapters on different embroidery techniqes. This book does not cater to those that only want to do 'folk' embroidery or 'doodling'. While you can see in this heavily illustrated book how to do the minimal stitches that type of embroidery calls for, the actual projects shown are of a higher quality and shown using careful stitching to make beautiful projects, not whimsicle ones. Although the few stitches used in whimsicle designs are taught in this book.I have never had any books published by way of the Royal School of Needlework, but I had been wanting to see one. In this book you get a lot of their smaller books in one. So read the product description carefully to see if you already own all the smaller books as I am not sure how much in the way of new material was added to this book.One of the things that impressed me was something that other embroidery books barely spend time on, this book makes sure it is covered in full, including, for instance, how to set up for embroidery frame or hoop properly to avoid stitching that is being twisted and distorted. After the stitching is complete, if you are taking it to a finisher it will be properly ready for its frame and will look great. The same if you are framing it yourself, you use the same techniques to finish your work of art.Your will see examples for every stitching technique and the most used stitches for that techniqueas well as supplementary stitches for making exquisite pieces of art. This book should be on the books shelf of every serious embroiderer as well as a 'newbie' to the art of embroidery so that they will learn from the best and will push themselves to learn new and better techniqes. While there are some projects in the book, it is not a project book per se. It is an instructional book so that you can do any project that you want to.Do you need this book if you already have a reference book or two to all the stitches? I have found that every large reference work has loads of great information, yet I have never found that they all have each and every stitch and each of the books has a bit different focus. If you can only afford one book, this one would be a terrific one as a reference.
5.0 out of 5 stars You won’t find a more comprehensive book!
This is an extremely comprehensive book covering a vast selection of topics. Crewelwork, Blackwork, Whitework, Silk Shading, Stumpwork, Bead Embroidery, Canvaswork, Goldwork. The examples are clear concise and beautiful. I highly recommend this book. My book arrived with a small tear in the slip jacket but the cover is great.
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Book
If you do any needlework than you need this book. It is beautifully illustrated and has all the stitches for anyone doing embroidery, crewel, or needlepoint using all types of threads and yarns. The illustrations show you step-by-step how to do each stitch. It is a wonderful reference and has tips and techniques to improve your stitching. Also provides historical references. Truly a great reference for any needle artist.
5.0 out of 5 stars Bought as a gift, want one for myself
I purchased this as a gift for a friend who also embroiders. After looking through myself, i’ve also added it to my wishlist! The illustrations are full color and excellent, and the instructions are thorough! Its a great resource!
5.0 out of 5 stars My new definitive embroidery resource
Let me start with a confession: I am very far from a master embroiderer. In fact, most of my projects are table runners and pillows that come from -- gasp -- kits. (High-end kits, mind you -- I follow several Arts & Crafts Era scholars and Roycroft artisans -- but kits nonetheless.) I regularly acquire equipment with which to do my own designs, but I never get around to doing so. Perhaps it's because my Day Job regularly has me start with a blank sheet of paper, so I permit myself the exercise of coloring-in someone else's patterns.Nonetheless I do love embroidery, particularly when it's done well by people who know what they're doing. So I gave myself a present of this book, telling myself that it's always useful to understand the process of creating something even when I'm unlikely to do it myself. Which is another way of saying: It's okay, kid, you can look at a picture book.And OH MY OH MY is this a lovely book. It has helped me to understand how to do a better job on my own simple projects. The book's subtitle is, "a guide to essential stitches, techniques, and projects" and it absolutely delivers on that promise.To begin with, the book is extremely well organized, with hundreds (thousands?) of photos and diagrams to make everything clear. After an introductory section that shows how to frame up and the options for tracing a design (which caused me to put in yet another Bolo order for supplies!), chapters are given over to: crewelwork; canvas work; blackwork; silk shading; gold work; stump work; white work; bead embroidery. Each chapter shares the history of the given technique; its tools and materials; design elements; the stitches, including a "stitch finder;" patterns that show off the differences (some simple, some "...and here is what you can accomplish if you're really good"); starter projects to help you put the lessons to use.These chapters are extensive, and in other hands would be a book unto themselves. For instance, the Silk Shading chapter is 50 pages long, including a section on padding, and another one on adding beads and sequins. It has five projects, from "blue curves" for a beginner, to "autumn leaves." You get everything: a design to trace, color suggestions, advice about stitch order.The book is drool-worthy just for the photos, both historical and "how-to." Accompanying the essay on the history of metal threadwork ("Some of the earliest surviving examples of metal thread work in Great Britain are the textiles associated with Saint Cuthbert that can be seen in the Treasury at Durham Cathedral..."), for example, are _excellent_ photographs that (unlike so many other books) show the detail that a dedicated artist wants to peer at. Why yes, that IS embroidery from the Middle Ages...! The how-to instructions do not skip steps; a section on felt padding has six small, clear photos that show what it looks like from start-to-finish. In the canvaswork chapter, you see both the process (from the needle's eye view on graph paper) and the stitch results, side-by-side: Oh, so THAT is what a double-linked cross looks like.If I have a criticism, it's that in some places the text is a little small and occasionally hard to read.The book is worth the purchase price just for the breadth of embroidery examples, from "earliest example of..." to charming modern designs.Prepare to swoon. I did, over and over.
Not what I'm looking for.
Too advanced for me. No basic sewing technique to learn from this book
Piękna książka
Książka jest bardzo gruba, ma świetne zdjęcia pokazująca różne ściegi i techniki haftu oraz przykłady ich zastosowania. Książka podzielona jest na działy- crewelwork, blackwork, whitework, silk shading, stumpwork, bead embroidery, canvaswork i goldwork i każdy z tych działów jest bardzo dokładnie opisany. Ksiazka jest piękna i jak najbardziej nadaje się również na prezent.
Lovely book
I just got this book and had a look through. I love that it includes little blurbs about the history of different kinds of needlework. The breakdown is great, the examples seem thorough, and the picture quality is excellent. It’s a great resource book, and I’m really glad I bought it
Très intéressant
J'ai acheté ce livre précédent, je l'ai offert à quelqu'un qui le feuilleté chez moi, et donc je l'ai racheté tant il est riche .Une encyclopédie et un excellent livre pour apprendre les différents points, et techniques de la broderie.De plus il est richement illustré en photos et illustrations pour expliquer les points.
exhaustif !
Très complet et très intéressant.
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