Customer Reviews

Traditional Hardanger Embroidery (Dover Needlework)

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I absolutely loved the designs but they were way too advanced for a beginner like me. I would like to see step-by-step instructions or a few samplers included with the harder patterns.

This is an excellant book for an adventurous novice and a delight for the advanced Hardanger enthusiast. There are no graphs but the pictures are clear and numerous, and there are some directions and close-up pictures of unusual motifs. The style of the work is unusual, densely rich and complex. For the advanced stitcher, a look at a different style of Hardanger and for the novice, an attainable goal to shoot for!

This book is an excellent source of older style Hardange patterns. While there are no graphs, the pictures are clear enough that the Hardanger stitcher with some experience can easily handle the designs, which are typically more complex and more densely decorated than the current trends in Hrdanger. A must have for a Hardanger junkie!

Priscilla Publishers was a venerated long-time needlework designer and publishing company. Their various books are utter classics. I don't understand the criticism of this exquisite book. Who said it was for beginners? Just browsing through the exasperatingly black-and-white photos is a delight to the eye. If you need to get into hardanger more easily--which is certainly understandable and highly encouraged--go up this page and purchase any one of these other great, more modern books. I own all of them but one and think are a great introduction to this stitching. Do some of those projects and then return to this book. This artform is greatly rewarding and you will produce wonderful stitchery that will fill you with pride.

Instructions are unclear; you have to read them several times. Does not discuss needles, thread, sewing versus hoop stabbing, nor explain how to carry thread behind invisably so that your work looks good from both sides. The designs are nice and the explanations might be helpful for experienced hardanger stitchers.