English Garden Embroidery: Over 80 Original Needlepoint Designs of Flowers, Fruit and Animals by Stafford Whiteaker hits the £1 shelf in my shop.
Bracken Books, 1992, Hardback in dust wrapper.
Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs; Colour Drawings; Tables;Patterns;
From the cover: This is a presentation of over 100 original designs based on the hand-coloured patterns popular in Victorian times and inspired by the flowers, fruits and animals found in the traditional English country garden. The patterns range from full-page size to small border motifs and include pansies, strawberries, honey bees, a cat and his catsnip, nasturtiums and poppies, rose geometric and snowflakes. Each pattern has a suggested colourway chart coded for British and American wools and a section on essential stitches will remind both the novice and the advanced needleworker of the basics. The accompanying text includes information on the flowers and gardens of England and poetic sayings which lend themselves to be worked up as embroidered samplers, for which there is an alphabet.
Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper with tanning to the same.
Orange boards with Black titling to the Spine.
143 pages. 11″ x 8″.
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