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Beginner’s Guide to Blackwork

By Lesley Wilkins
Series: Search Press Classics
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Beginner's Guide to Blackwork by Lesley Wilkins is an informative resource focused on the traditional art of Blackwork embroidery. This book offers step-by-step instructions and detailed patterns, catering to both novices and experienced embroiderers. It explores the history and techniques behind this detailed art form, inspiring readers to create their own intricate designs.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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If you're fascinated by traditional embroidery techniques and enjoy exploring intricate patterns, this arts and culture book might capture your interest. It's perfect for both beginners and experienced stitchers looking to dive into or expand their skills in the craft of blackwork. With step-by-step instructions and creative design ideas, it offers a wonderful opportunity to immerse yourself in a rich textile tradition.

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Beginner’s Guide to Blackwork

Blackwork is a classic 16th-century embroidery technique, in which beautiful designs are created by stitching geometric designs onto evenweave fabric.

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Inspired by the past, Lesley Wilkins illustrates her techniques with a whole host of wonderful designs, including flowers, plants, birds, animals, and figures. She covers everything from the materials to use and working with a chart, to getting started and how to stitch.

Patterns in Beginner’s Guide to Blackwork are created by small stitched units which are combined in many different ways—some heavily textured, some delicate and light. Borders can be built up by repeating and joining motifs.

Clear step-by-step photographs accompany the author's comprehensive instructions, and the motifs, borders, fill-in patterns, and images are all charted. The book includes inspirational pictures of embroideries, showing how to build up finished designs.

Series: Search Press Classics

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Beginner’s Guide to Blackwork by Lesley Wilkins is praised for its step-by-step guidance suitable for beginners, covering essential materials and design techniques for this traditional embroidery style. Reviewers appreciate its clear instructions and the opportunity it offers to create unique blackwork pieces, including incorporating colour. While some note the absence of staged projects, the abundance of patterns, motifs, and practical tips contribute to its status as a classic in the embroidery community.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781782217893

Publisher: Search Press Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 March 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Search Press Ltd

Illustration: 110 Illustrations, color

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 5.0mm

Width: 204.0mm

Height: 260.0mm

Weight: 252g

Pages: 64

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Arts & Culture Arts and Crafts Lesley Wilkins Non-Fiction Series: Search Press Classics

About the Author

Lesley Wilkins discovered blackwork samplers on a school visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London when she was only ten, and has been hooked ever since. Her fascination with the craft has led her to become not only an embroiderer of extraordinary skill, but also an expert in the history of blackwork. She has collected thousands of patterns from all over the world, and her own work is inspired by historical motifs, patterns and borders. Her designs have appeared in Needlecraft and Needlework magazines, and also edited her own embroidered sampler magazine Antique Samplerstitcher for nine years which contained many blackwork designs. Now that she has retired early from local government, Lesley continues to self-publish a variety of embroidered projects online.

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