Goldwork

Product Description

The Royal School of Needlework (RSN) teaches hand embroidery to the highest standard & is well respected all over the world. It not only upholds the traditions of English embroidery that go back many hundreds of years but is constantly taking embroidery forward in new & innovative ways. This series of Essential Stitch Guides has been produced in close collaboration with the RSN with the aim of providing a set of definitive works on traditional embroidery techniques. All of the authors were chosen by the RSN & all are graduate apprentices of the Royal School. Goldwork is all about the interplay of colour texture & light & it is this quality that is at the heart of Helen Mc Cook's work. The book starts with a historical account of goldwork then moves on to the materials & equipment required framing up how to transfer a design on to fabric & how to start & finish a thread. The main section of the book then covers all of the essential stitches & techniques through clear step-by-step diagrams & photographs coupled with beautiful close-up photographs showing how then can be used in a finished piece. These include couching bricking basketweave cutwork spangles s-ing pearl purl plate & kid. The book ends with a section in which the techniques described in the previous section are combined to create finished pieces all beautifully & exquisitely worked by the author.