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The Art of Embroidered Flowers

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The Art of Embroidered Flowers by Gilda Baron offers a beautiful exploration of floral embroidery techniques. Dive into a world where art and craft blend seamlessly, presenting vivid step-by-step guides to create embroidered floral designs. The book draws inspiration from nature, helping both beginners and seasoned needleworkers elevate their embroidery skills through creative projects and stunning visual examples.
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This book may appeal to you if you appreciate blending creativity with craft, as it offers a unique exploration of embroidery techniques to create stunning floral designs. You might enjoy it for its inspiring guidance, which allows artists and hobbyists to cultivate their skills in needlework, transforming fabric into vivid, intricate masterpieces. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced embroiderer, this beautifully illustrated guide will encourage your artistic journey.

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Gilda Baron’s popular guide to creating art with textiles and embroidery, now in a new and modernised Search Press Classic edition.Β 

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Explore nature through a combination of textiles and embroidery in this new, modernised edition of The Art of Embroidered Flowers by Gilda Baron. This book is an inspirational, innovative, step-by-step guide to creating stunning embroideries.

Using painted and dyed backgrounds, along with hand and machine embroidery, the guide presents a wonderful variety of three-dimensional landscape and flower embroideries. Various techniques are used to apply colour to the fabric, including batik, salt discharge, and brushing dye into a wet surface. Beautiful pictures are stitched and built up over the background in easy stages, with the feeling of perspective enhanced by the clever use of scale and colour.

All techniques are clearly explained and demonstrated through a series of stunning projects. This original book is packed with practical advice and information. Anyone interested in pattern, texture, and colour will discover a wealth of inspiration as they work through the projects.

These highly individual designs will encourage both beginners and more experienced embroiderers to create their own embroidered flower designs, offering a balance of guidance and creative freedom.

Series: Search Press Classics

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  • The Art of Embroidered Flowers
    Explore nature through a combination of textiles and embroidery in this new, modernised edition of The Art of Embroidered Flowers by Gilda Baron. This book is an inspirational, innovative, step-by-step guide to creating stunning embroideries. Using painted and dyed backgrounds, along with hand and machine embroidery, the guide presents a wonderful variety of three-dimensional landscape and flower embroideries. Various techniques...
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    Kay Dennis is passionate about Stumpwork. This intricate, raised and padded embroidery has its origins in the 17th century and is enjoying a revival amongst embroiderers and lacemakers. It is wonderfully versatile and will appeal both to the novice and the seasoned needleworker. Using a mix of flat, padded, wired, and free-standing elements, it employs a wide range of embroidery...
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The Art of Embroidered Flowers by Gilda Baron is praised for its creative approach, combining embroidery with painting, resist dyeing, and collage techniques to create stunning landscapes and floral scenes. Reviewers highlight the book as a valuable resource for taking embroidery to new artistic levels, encouraging creativity with basics like a simple sewing machine, fabric paint, and scraps of cloth. Despite its concise nature, the book provides detailed, step-by-step instructions and vibrant examples of Baron's work, making it a beloved classic for embroidery enthusiasts seeking inspiration and new techniques.

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ISBN: 9781782215226

Publisher: Search Press Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 June 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Search Press Ltd

Illustration: 200 Illustrations, color

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 6.0mm

Width: 204.0mm

Height: 260.0mm

Weight: 308g

Pages: 80

About the Author

Gilda Baron, who sadly passed away in 2015, had a wonderful career as a well-respected textile artist. Trained at the London College of Fashion, she not only became a lecturer in fashion and crafts, she was also a regular contributor to magazines and frequently exhibited at galleries, where she also sold her work. She held many workshops for embroiderers' groups and guilds over the years, demonstrating her love of fabric and embroidery and sharing her enthusiasm with people everywhere. She is survived by her husband, children and grandchildren; and her friendship and talent are deeply missed.

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