Get The TechniqueI've been working on an embroidery project recently, and thinking about it has led me to find some interesting embroidery-related things online. Below is an assortment of things I've fancied lately.
Elsie Svennas published several books (in both Swedish and English) on embroidery, lettering, and quilting in the 1960s. Sadly they're now out of print and hard to find, but look at how perfect and beautiful the designs are. (Images above from fine little day.) A page of nice A's...
Searching for her books led me to this Japanese bookseller, which has a great collection of vintage Scandinavian books on needle crafts. I also came across some really interesting embroidery on Peter Nencini's blog, which I love looking at...from the looks of things I'm guessing he likes Elsie too!
Renilde Depeuter also has a blog, where she reports on the progress of many different projects, all very beautiful. You can also see them here in her flickr set.
And finally, just today I came across Evelin Kasikov's 'handmade CMYK,' which is quite amazing. She stitches a cross stitch 'halftone' in colored threads to approximate the effect of 4-color process inks. Cool!
From: Anne-Marie | 9/8/10 at 11:14 pm
What great inspiration - I can see some awesome textures and patterns for printed paper with some of the embroidery inspiration for sure.
From: *gemmifer* | 9/9/10 at 1:19 am
I saw what I believe is a Japanese reprint of this book on Ebony Bizys' blog, Hello Sandwich:
http://hellosandwich.blogspot.com/2010/08/banana-dada.html
She mentioned getting a copy at Kinokuniya in Tokyo, so maybe the NYC branch carries or can order it?
From: Rowaida Flayhan | 9/9/10 at 3:48 am
Very interesting post! thanks
From: Embroidery | 9/9/10 at 5:03 am
Nice Post..i like it....i enjoy the Reading and designs also....it was really up to the mark.....The designs are wonderful with the complete hand embroidery touch.....
From: JennS | 9/9/10 at 7:28 pm
this is amazing-- love it when you recommend vintage books!
From: Erin | 9/9/10 at 11:13 pm
Love that first photo.... Thanks for the inspiration!
From: Theresa | 9/13/10 at 9:34 am
This book really looks amazing. I would love to get my hands on that. Have you ever seen this website, it is also full of old embroidery PDF's and quite useful: http://patternmakercharts.blogspot.com/! Many greetings, Theresa (neu4bauer.blogspot.com)
From: Athena Preston | 9/13/10 at 2:07 pm
Hi Theresa- Thank you for that link! what a great resource. I also realized that my friend Molly has been posting some very thorough embroidery info over at purl bee... have a look.
http://www.purlbee.com/the-purl-bee/?currentPage=2
From: Hello Sandwich | 9/17/10 at 12:15 am
It's a beautiful beautiful book isn't it!
Love Love
Hello Sandwich
xoxo
From: apex | 9/21/10 at 9:51 am
Great designs love the fonts
From: Said Abdullah | 10/9/10 at 5:15 pm
Thanks for cute embroidery design I like also to share with you free embroidery designs the below website
http://embroidery.allnewthings.com
http://allnewthings.com
thanks in advance for the Admin