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Ancient Egyptian Cross Stitch

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I was inspired to purchase this book after using the search inside device provided by amazon.com. I am very much interested in the Ancient Egyptian culture. This book is amazing providing quite a few larger projects including the Sphinx, King Tut, and a goddess. It also has quite a large amount of smaller motifs ideal for bookmarks including Osiris, the eye of Horus, Isis, Anubis etc. At the end of the book you can find a few border designs. This book uses quite a lot of color mostly green, red, yellow, and blue. It provides colored charts containing symbols for easy identification. A definite must have for any cross stitcher!

Camels weren't introduced until the Persians took control of Egypt around 525 B.C.. In early ancient Egypt donkeys were used at transportation and pack animals. There is no evidence of the camels existence in ancient egypt - no remains mummified or otherwise, no references in paintings or statues or other art from that period (National Geographic says so and doing a search there are tons of other sites, museums and books that say the same thing). If you have studied and loved Ancient Egypt as much as I have you will never have seen any camels in that time period. Other than this huge mix-up (small camel and man on page 8 project and huge touristy looking project on page 50 of arabian camel in front of pyramid) I like the projects in this book and the colors used for those projects. I will definitely be doing quite a few of these projects in the form in which they were made and adapting them to other forms as well. There are iconic images such as Nefertiti and King Tut., typical daily life scenes, common species of the time period and hieroglyphics so there are a wide range of projects in this book.

I just love the charts in this book. I was getting tired of the same old books. This book is really refreshing. The charts when stitched turn out gorgeous. It is well worth what I paid for it. Even if it hadn't been on sale I would have bought it.

Very VERY nice book, with very nice scenes included. Cannot wait to gift this to my mother. She'll be just as thrilled since it's not just a fox or bear this time, LOL.

I've been looking far and wide for this cross-stitch book for two years! Having an Egyptian theme in our relatively new master suite and being a cross-stitcher for many years, I can't wait to finish wht I'm doing to get started on these. Only problem is I don't know which one to start with.

The patterns are clear and instructions complete. It should be easy for even the most novice stitcher to use.

Book is just what I was looking for, will enjoy many hours cross stitching. Only problem was not strong enough to get it out the packaging, felt like it was vacuum packed.

I have an Egyptian theme in my master bathroom and was looking for some great images to do in cross stitch to display in this room. This book is full of wonderful images that you can do in entirety or grab parts of to create your own masterpieces. Highly recommend this book.

though not as in tricate as I am used to doing, I can customize thread types, and other materials, so its just fine for me

Io non sono un'amante dell'antico egitto, ma ero interessata ad avere schemi con qualche soggetto egiziano. Devo dire la verità che pensavo molto meglio.