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Embroidery -- History -- 20th century.
Embroidery.
Fashion design -- History -- 20th century.
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Marsh, Gail.
Embroidery -- History -- 20th century.
Embroidery.
Fashion design -- History -- 20th century.
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Early
20th
century
embroidery
techniques
/ Gail Marsh.
by
Marsh, Gail.
Guild of Master Craftsman, 2011.
Call #:
746.44 M365et
Subjects
Embroidery
-- History -- 20th
century
.
Embroidery
.
Fashion design -- History -- 20th
century
.
ISBN:
9781861088208 (hc.)
1861088205 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Early
twentieth
century
embroidery
techniques
Description:
191 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Teaching the stitch -- Glasgow School of Art -- Ann Macbeth -- Margaret Swanson -- Margaret Jean Keay and Anne Knox Arthur -- Basic stitches -- Needleweaving -- Rachel George -- Case Study Applique and couching -- Re-inventing the stitch -- Louisa Augusta Tebbs and Josepha Rosa Tebbs -- New Punto Tagliato -- Needle lace fillings -- Woven lace fillings -- Wheel
techniques
-- Cording the motifs -- Cutting the work and finishing -- Mona Faulkner -- Surface stitches -- Outline stitches -- Filling stitches -- Case Study Mona's notebook -- Exploring the stitch -- Wessex stitchery -- Mrs Margaret M. Foster -- Margaret stitch -- Needle lace sacklets -- Lettering -- Case Study Painted backgrounds -- Identifying the stitch -- Lewis Foreman Day -- Grace Christie -- Louisa Frances Pesel -- Miss Isabel Walton -- Couching as a filling stitch -- Pattern darning -- Double-running stitch -- Miss C. Maisie Currie -- Case Study Sampler -- Modernizing the stitch -- Rebecca Crompton -- Kathleen Mann -- Elizabeth Grace Thomson -- Dorothy Benson -- Alice Edna Smith -- Modern applique -- Cutwork -- Composite stitches -- Interlacing stitches -- Case Study Felt inlay applique -- Perfecting the stitch -- Hazlewood sisters and Dr Sibyl Welsh -- Yew Tree Linen Industry and Louisa Pesel -- Fisherton-de-la Mere Industry and Josephine Newall -- Designing a sampler -- Counted satin stitch -- Eyelets -- Drawn fabric work -- Insertion stitches -- Hems and finishes -- Buttons, tassels and cords -- Doris Walmsley -- Case Study Casalguidi
embroidery
-- Collecting the stitch -- Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth -- Cross stitch -- Joan Drew -- Satin stitch -- Crewel work -- Case Study Laid work -- Connecting threads --^ How all these people connect together and influence one another as friends, teachers and pupils.
Summary:
A detailed and illustrated study examining stitches, threads,
techniques
and the embroiderers of the period. The author delves into the archives to research the personalities, varied and unusual
techniques
and tools that hand-embroiderers used in the period 1900-1939, before the outbreak of World War II.
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