Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
by Grace Christie
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About this eBook
- Author
- Christie, Grace, 1872-1953
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Susan Skinner and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TT: Technology: Handicrafts, Arts and crafts
- Subject
- Tapestry
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 20386
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20386
- Release Date
- January 16, 2007
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE ARTISTIC CRAFTS SERIES OF TECHNICAL HANDBOOKS EDITED BY W. R. LETHABY EMBROIDERY AND TAPESTRY WEAVING — EMBROIDERY AND TAPESTRY WEAVING
- 2.A PRACTICAL TEXT-BOOK OF DESIGN AND WORKMANSHIP BY MRS. ARCHIBALD H. CHRISTIE WITH DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS
- 3.EDITOR'S PREFACE
- 4.AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- 5.CONTENTS
- 6.PART I—EMBROIDERY
- 7.CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
- 8.CHAPTER II TOOLS, APPLIANCES, AND MATERIALS — MATERIALS
- 9.CHAPTER III PATTERN DESIGNING
- 10.CHAPTER IV STITCHES
- 11.CHAPTER V STITCHES—( continued ) — SATIN AND SIMILAR STITCHES — BUTTONHOLE STITCH AND ITS APPLICATION
- 12.CHAPTER VI STITCHES—( continued ) — KNOTS AND KNOT STITCHES — MISCELLANEOUS STITCHES — INSERTION STITCHES — PICOTS
- 13.CHAPTER VII CANVAS WORK AND STITCHES
- 14.CHAPTER VIII METHODS OF WORK — COUCHING — LAID WORK — APPLIED WORK — INLAID WORK — PATCHWORK
- 15.CHAPTER IX METHODS OF WORK—( continued ) — RAISED WORK — DARNING — OPEN WORK FILLINGS — DARNED NETTING
- 16.CHAPTER X METHODS OF WORK—( continued ) — DRAWN THREAD WORK — CUT OR OPEN WORK
- 17.CHAPTER XI EMBROIDERY WITH GOLD AND SILVER THREADS — MATERIALS — ANCIENT METHOD OF COUCHING — MODERN METHOD OF COUCHING — RAISED WORK — THE USE OF FANCY GOLD THREADS
- 18.CHAPTER XII LETTERING, HERALDRY, AND EMBLEMS
- 19.CHAPTER XIII THE GARNITURE OF WORK — KNOTS
- 20.CHAPTER XIV PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS — FRAME WORK
- 21.PART II TAPESTRY WEAVING
- 22.CHAPTER XV INTRODUCTION
- 23.CHAPTER XVI NECESSARY APPLIANCES AND MATERIALS — TOOLS AND APPLIANCES — MATERIALS
- 24.CHAPTER XVII PREPARATIONS FOR WORK
- 25.CHAPTER XVIII THE TECHNIQUE OF WEAVING
- 26.NOTES ON THE COLLOTYPE PLATES
- 27.THE COLLOTYPE PLATES — FOOTNOTES:
- 28.INDEX — EMBROIDERY MATERIALS — J. MAYGROVE & CO. Ltd . — PLASTER CASTS — ROBERT S. RONALD — THE ARTISTIC CRAFTS SERIES
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