Embroidered Textiles: A World Guide to Traditional Patterns | 
| Author: Sheila Paine
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 125373
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.7
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 9.7 x 1.1
ISBN: 0500513945
Dewey Decimal Number: 646
EAN: 9780500513941
ASIN: 0500513945
Publication Date: June 23, 2008
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Product Description
The only worldwide survey of embroidered textiles: a remarkable visual panorama.
Embroidery has been practiced for thousands of years, and the variety is astonishing: gold-embroidered Chinese court insignia, landscape-worked Japanese kimonos, Sumatran sarongs, Indian saris, Afghan chain-stitched purses, Turkish napkin borders, Ghanaian patchwork banners, Egyptian head shawls, Moroccan cushion covers, Hungarian sheepskin jerkins, Slovakian bed curtains, German folk dress, Dutch bonnets, Breton coifs, Sicilian ecclesiastical cloths, Spanish sleeves, North American Indian quillwork pouches, Mexican blouses, Panamanian molas, Peruvian Nasca textiles, and more.
The book is organized into four main sections, covering every aspect of embroidered textiles:
•Guide to Identification: the key fabrics, materials, stitches, motifs, and styles;
• The Decorative Power of Cult: recurrent mythological symbols, including Great Goddess figures, Trees of Life, and symbols of the Hunt;
• Religion and Its Patterns: the main symbols of all the major religious and spiritual systems;
• The Magic of Embroidery: protective and strengthening devices rooted in ancient beliefs and superstitions.
There are 500 illustrations (over 360 in color), including specially taken color photographs, maps, line drawings, and a dictionary of stitches. Complete with a glossary, a guide to textile collections around the world, and advice on collecting and conserving textiles, this comprehensive survey, now in an enhanced format and completely revised, will be invaluable to anyone interested in fashion, textiles, crafts, and design.
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Oh bliss! August 30, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Anyone who loves to do hand embroidery will love this book. It is a feast of form and colour, using the most simple stitches. In fact, the one thing which characterises this kind of embroidery is that it shows what can be done with a very limited range of stitches, yet produce something stunning. It's the way the shapes and colours work that makes it so striking and is a lesson to those of us who like to get complicated just for fun.
The book itself is wonderful. The illustrations and text are excellent. My copy has dozens of sticky notes all over it to draw my attention back to a particular picture of piece of text that took my fancy - you know how it is. I have a wall of books on hand embroidery, traditional costumes and patterns, and this one at the moment is my favourite.
Whether you are an embroiderer or not, the book is a treat just to read and look at.
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