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Silk Shading
by Sarah Homfray

Publisher: Search Press
Edition: Spiral Bound

ISBN 13: 9781844485857

The Royal School of Needlework teaches hand embroidery to the highest standard, developing techniques in new and innovative ways. This book includes an extensive stitch guide, covering all the techniques necessary for silk shading, a design section, and a history of the Royal School itself. Learn everything you need about the techniques needed, history of the craft and be inspired by work of the highest standards.

Price: £10.99

Helen M. Stevens' Embroiderer's Countryside
by Helen M Stevens

Publisher David & Charles
Edition Paperback

This is a classic embroidery book brought back into print after being unavailable for years, in a new and extended edition.Helen depicts the natural beauty of the countryside using pure silk embroidery threads to capture spring hedgerows, the woodland floor, river banks and summer meadows with breath-taking realism.This new edition includes four step-by-step masterclass embroidery projects giving readers the opportunity to replicate Helen's beautiful nature-inspired embroideries for themselves.Each delightful scene is accompanied with full discussion of stitching techniques and stunning colour photographs, making this the perfect guide for the nature-loving embroiderer.

Price: £15.99

Helen M. Stevens' Embroidered Gardens
by Helen M. Stevens

Publisher David & Charles
Edition Paperback

NEW IN PAPERBACKThe fifth title in 'The Masterclass Embroidery Series' showing how to create stunning embroideries designed by internationally acclaimed textile artist Helen M. Stevens.Helen explores a range of beautiful garden settings, from the intimate and personal cottage garden, to the stately splendour of the formal country park, using pure silk embroidery threads to achieve astonishingly realistic effects.Each of the five chapters builds toward an in-depth masterclass project including landscape templates and close-up detailed colour templates of garden wildlife, as well as colour keys and step-by-step stitching instructions.Easy-to-follow colour photographs illustrate the working stages of each masterclass embroidery, ensuring that perfect results can be achieved when recreating the picturesque designs.
Price: £12.99

Helen M Stevens' Embroidered Animals
by Helen M Stevens

Publisher David & Charles
Edition Hardback

A masterclass in how to create stunning animal portraits with embroidery silks, from internationally acclaimed textile artist Helen M. Stevens. In five fascinating chapters Helen explores a variety of animals that are linked in different ways - whether by their ferocity as predators, their closeness to man as familiar countryside dwellers or as among the world's weirder creatures like the platypus. Each chapter leads towards a master class project with colour templates. Easy to follow colour photographs illustrate the working stages of the design to ensure that perfect results are achieved.
Price: £15.99

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