Customer Reviews

Pulled Thread Embroidery (Dover Embroidery, Needlepoint)

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Book completely in black and white making line drawings difficult to understand, especially for beginners. The few examples didn't have directions I could follow.

If you are wanting to learn to do this work this book has good illustrations to get you started. Easy to read and understand.

There are two principal forms of White Work that create the look of lace on linen or cotton. These two forms consist of either removing threads from the warp and weft of the fabric and then employing various forms of needle lace and embroidery techniques on the remaining threads OR stitches that compress the threads of the fabric through tension, thus creating a lace effect. These are variously referred to as Pulled Thread Work, Pulled Fabric Work, Drawn Thread Work and Drawn Fabric Work, and are not referred to with consistency making it difficult for the embroiderer to buy instructional books. Generally the removal techniques are referred to as Pulled Thread and Drawn Thread and the compression techniques are referred to Pulled Fabric and Drawn Fabric.

This book is an EXCEPTION to that general rule as it is called Pulled Thread Embroidery and the stitches refer entirely to the compression technique. Books on the compression technique are very difficult to find. I already own the two seminal works on this technique and have had limited success employing them and the stitches diagrammed were limited. THIS book pictures dozens of stitches in the compression technique, all clearly diagrammed and clear to the needleworker. It is a stunning resource if not exactly the book I thought I was buying. Ironically, I had given up on learning the compression technique in any detail and was looking for books using the removal technique. Then this book arrived and I was stunned and thrilled.

The stitch guides are wonderful and an irreplaceable resource for the adventurous needle worker who wants to keep a dying technique alive. Highest possible recommendation.

Excellent reference for the pulled thread embroiderer with experience. This book is not a how-to but a reference source of 100's of stitches to be worked with joy.