Pulled Thread Embroidery

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Courier Corporation, Jan 1, 1993 - Crafts & Hobbies - 207 pages

Pulled thread embroidery transforms a piece of ordinary fabric into delicate "lace" by compressing threads of loosely woven background material with tightly pulled stitches. Focusing on this age-old craft, Moyra McNeill's clearly written, profusely illustrated how-to book shows embroiderers what attractive effects can be achieved by using relatively simple techniques. For needlecrafters desiring greater challenges, more complex ideas are presented as well.
Following a brief introductory history of the craft, easy-to-follow instructions are provided for creating dozens of decorative stitches, among then the diagonal cross, open trellis and checker fillings; the ripple, Finnish, cushion, diamond, triangle, and braid stitches; as well as composite stitches displaying a reeded stitch and mosaic filling.
Concluding sections describe procedures for a variety of edgings (simple-faced, hern-stitched picot, and fringed) and for creating inspired designs of your own, while a final chapter exhibits decorative examples of pulled work embroidery from the past.

 

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Contents

What is Pulled Thread
9
Stitches
17
FILLINGS BASED ON SATIN STITCH
25
SPACED SATIN STITCH FILLINGS
31
Square eyelet 36 Small eyelet 37 Single cross
39
Pulled back stitch 44 Festoon stitch 45 Ringed
48
wave stitch 51 Window filling 52 Double
54
STITCHES BASED ON THE DIAGONAL
60
STITCHES BASED ON DOUBLE BACK STITCH
74
MISCELLANEOUS STITCHES
88
Eyelet and step stitch filling 99 Outlined diamond
102
Edgings
157
Pulled Work in the Past
171
BIBLIOGRAPHY
207
Copyright

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Moyra McNeill
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Common terms and phrases

adventure background basic Benaki Museum blocks border buttonhole buttonhole stitch chain stitch colour corner counted thread cross filling cross stitch darning decorative Development Scheme collection diagonal rows diagram double back stitch double faggot stitch drawn thread Edited effect eighteenth century embroidered embroidery examples fabric fichus floor plans four-sided stitch G. K. Chesterton Gawthorpe Hall Greek cross ground material hem stitch hole honeycomb stitch illustrations Italian Cross stitch kind permission linen motifs novel number of threads º º º panel photograph Picot edge poems pulled fillings pulled stitches pulled thread fillings round eyelets rows of satin ſae sampler satin stitch shape single faggot stitch Sºº square eyelet stitch filling STITCHES BASED story tale techniques tension texture three-sided stitch tightly two-sided Italian Cross waistcoats wave stitch Whitworth Art Gallery William Shakespeare wrong side

About the author (1993)

Moyra McNeill is well known among practitioners of needlecraft and has written several popular books on embroidery.

Bibliographic information

TitlePulled Thread Embroidery
Dover Embroidery, Needlepoint Series
Dover books on needlepoint, embroidery
AuthorMoyra McNeill
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherCourier Corporation, 1993
ISBN0486278573, 9780486278575
Length207 pages
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Crafts & Hobbies / Needlework / Embroidery
  
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