RSN Essential Stitch Guides: Goldwork - Helen McCook - RSN Essential Stitch Guides

RSN Essential Stitch Guides: Goldwork by Helen McCook is a classic reference guide to goldwork embroidery, produced in conjunction with the Royal School of Needlework. This is a large format paperback edition in the RSN Essential Stitch Guides series.

Key details

• Author: Helen McCook
• Series: RSN Essential Stitch Guides
• Large format edition
• Paperback, 96 pages
• Publisher: Search Press; publication date: 14 October 2021
• ISBN: 9781800920170

Synopsis

Beginning with a concise history of goldwork, this guide moves through the practical foundations: materials and equipment, framing up, transferring a design to fabric, and starting and finishing a thread. The core of the book is devoted to essential stitches and techniques, presented with step-by-step diagrams and photographs, alongside close-up images that show how each method appears in a completed piece.

Key traditional approaches are covered, including couching, bricking, basketweave, cutwork, spangles, s-ing, pearl purl, plate and kid, before concluding with worked examples that demonstrate how techniques can be combined. With 350 colour illustrations, it is positioned as a resource for both beginners and professional embroiderers.

Rackhams Reference : CS97F5HPIM