The Embroiderer's Garden (A David & Charles Craft Book) [Paperback]

Thomasina Beck (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1997 | Series: A David & Charles Craft Book

Irresistible sketches adapted from the world's most beautiful gardens -- in 80 pages of glorious full color -- bring the needleworker a host of great project ideas, all with easy-to-follow instructions and over 150 step-by-step photos. Especially helpful: tips on translating nature's subtle colors and shapes into stitchwork.

Product Details

• Paperback: 191 pages
• Publisher: David & Charles (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 071530691X
• ISBN-13: 978-0715306918
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 8.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #825,442 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspring and enchanting: Six stars, November 24, 2003

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Orianna "never forget" (Midwest USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Embroiderer's Garden (A David & Charles Craft Book) (Hardcover)

Ms. Beck provides a treasure trove of inspired embroidery projects. The book is full of beautiful, full-color prints of unusual and original works of art created with thread and fabric. She also provides many line drawings that can be combined to create your own embroidered garden scene. The artists in this book use thread, dye, fabric, and ribbon. Most projects combine straight embroidery with ribbon embroidery and applique and as well as quilting. The effects are just amazing. This book is bursting with inspiration, it will make you want to start your own project as soon as possible.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Be Inspired by your Garden, June 23, 2001

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Megan R McConnell (CHERMSIDE SOUTH, QLD Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Embroiderer's Garden (A David & Charles Craft Book) (Paperback)

Plants and gardens have long been a source of inspiration for embroiderers, and for a blackthumb like me, embroideries of plants is about the only way I can guarantee to have them always.

In this book, Thomasina Beck has managed to combine the two, with pictures of embroideries set in, of, and inspired by gardens.

The book is well set out, and takes you through all the steps necessary to design your own garden-inspired embroidery, right down to discussing different techniques to portray folage and flowers.

The techniques used to portray the various pieces pictured are varied, and I guarantee that every embroiderer will find some way to use her favorite technique.