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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Marsh, Gail.     Subjects     Embroidery -- History -- 20th century.     Embroidery.     Fashion design -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Marsh, Gail.       by title:      Early 20th century e...       by call number:      746.44 M365et     Search the Web     Marsh, Gail.     Embroidery -- History -- 20th century.     Embroidery.     Fashion design -- History -- 20th century.       MARC Display

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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 746.44 M365et Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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