RSN Essential Stitch Guides: Silk Shading - Sarah Homfray - RSN Essential Stitch Guides

A new, larger format edition of the classic reference work on silk shading by the Royal School of Needlework (RSN). The Essential Stitch Guides provide a set of definitive works on traditional embroidery techniques. Graduate Apprentice Sarah Homfray throws light onto the beautiful craft of silk shading, also known as painting with a needle, long and short stitch embroidery or thread painting. This book reveals the history of the craft then moves on to the materials and equipment required. Next, Sarah covers design and using colour, simplifying and demystifying this often neglected area of embroidery. The main part of the book then covers all of the essential stitches and techniques through clear, step-by-step diagrams, coupled with beautiful, close-up photographs showing how they can be used in a finished piece. Key traditional techniques are included: the fundamental stab, split and long and short stitches; along with couching, padding, adding beads and sequins, and knots. The book ends with beautiful and exquisitely-worked examples and covers working with different fabrics, threads and incorporating painted backgrounds. The RSN teaches hand embroidery to the highest standard and is 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. This series of Essential Stitch Guides has been produced in close collaboration with the RSN with the aim of providing a set of definitive works on traditional embroidery techniques.

Further Details

Author: Sarah Homfray | Series: RSN Essential Stitch Guides | Subtitle: Large format edition | Format: Paperback | Pages: 96 | Publisher: Search Press | Publication date: 12 April 2022 | Dimensions: 216 x 280 x 7 mm | Illustrations: 350 Colour illustrations | ISBN: 9781800920187

Product Features

• A new
• larger format edition of the Royal School of Needlework's (RSN) classic reference work | Published in conjunction with the prestigious RSN
• whose expertise makes it an indispensable resource for both beginners and professional embroiderers | Part of a series of Essential Stitch Guides
• of which 100
• 000 copies have been sold worldwide | Includes an extensive design section as well as inspirational finished works
• both traditional and contemporary
• to show how the stitches can be used

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