RSN Essential Stitch Guides: Goldwork – Large Format Edition

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Author: Helen McCook
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Year: 2021
Language: en
Edition: Large type / Large print
Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781800920170
Dimensions:
Height: 11.06 Inches
Length: 8.56 Inches
Weight: 0.9590108397 Pounds
Width: 0.3 Inches
Dewey Decimal: 746.44
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RSN Essential Stitch Guides: Goldwork – Large Format Edition by Helen McCook is a comprehensive resource published by National Geographic Books on November 30, 2021. This large print edition spans 96 pages and is designed to provide readers with the necessary skills to create intricate stitched work using metal thread. The book offers a historical overview of goldwork and details the materials and equipment needed for this embroidery technique.

Readers will find clear, step-by-step diagrams and photographs that illustrate essential stitches and techniques, including couching, bricking, and cutwork. The guide also covers practical aspects such as framing up and transferring designs onto fabric. The book concludes with beautifully worked examples that showcase how these techniques can be combined in finished pieces, making it a valuable addition for those interested in crafts and hobbies related to needlework and embroidery.

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A new, larger format edition of the Royal School of Needlework’s essential guide to goldwork, giving you all you need to create beautiful stitched work with metal thread.

The Royal School of Needlework teaches hand embroidery to the highest standard and is well respected all over the world. It not only upholds the traditions of English embroidery that go back many hundreds of years but is constantly taking embroidery forward in new and innovative ways. Written by Helen McCook, RSN Graduate Apprentice, Tutor and renowned embroiderer, this book begins with:

  • A historical account of goldwork, then moves on to the materials and equipment required
  • Framing up, how to transfer a design on to fabric, and how to start and finish a thread.
  • The main section of the book then covers all the essential stitches and techniques through clear, step-by-step diagrams and photographs, coupled with beautiful, close-up photographs showing how then can be used in a finished piece.
  • All the key traditional techniques are included: couching, bricking, basketweave, cutwork, spangles, s-ing, pearl purl, plate, and kid.
  • The book ends with beautiful and exquisitely worked examples of how the techniques can be combined in finished pieces.

    • Part of the RSN Essential Guides series.

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    Publisher: National Geographic Books. Year: 2021.
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    ISBN-13: 9781800920170.
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    Language: en. Pages: 96. Edition: Large type / Large print.

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