Series: Search Press Classics

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...

Beginner's Guide to Silk Ribbon Embroidery by Ann Cox teaches you how to create exquisite, delicately embroidered silk ribbon flowers, including foxgloves, roses, hydrangeas, delphiniums, primroses, geraniums, irises, poppies... and much more. A small selection of stitches are used to create a wide variety of flowers. All the techniques are explained in detailed step-by-step sequences.

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...

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...