Exploring Elizabethan Embroidery by Dorothy Clarke

This title begins the Elizabethan Needlework Series and introduces us to the colorful silk embroidery of the Elizabethan period. These embroideries are rich in texture, extravagant in their use of color, generous in the variety of stitches used and lavish in the employment of beads and metal threads. The range of stitches used by the seventeenth-century needlewoman was impressive and this first book introduces you to those stitches and techniques with clear, easy-to-follow stitch diagrams and instructions. A truly beautiful technique!

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