Contemporary Embroidery Design
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Contemporary Embroidery Design - Joan Nicholson
CONTEMPORARY
EMBROIDERY
DESIGN
by
JOAN NICHOLSON
1 Part of an eighteenth century patchwork quilt embroidered in silk and velvet, showing 24 of some 300 squares. Though we no longer have the leisure or inclination to make an article so large, a small cushion or a chair seat made in patchwork has great charm and is delightful in a contemporary setting
FOREWORD
BY MAURICE WHEATLEY
Senior Art Inspector to the London County Council
Although this is not the first book to be written about embroidery, it is, as far as I know, the first to be addressed to Everywoman
who may have an interest in needlecraft. This compact, well-illustrated volume contains a message for the housewife, the business woman and also for the teacher; it is a message that stresses the need for intelligent approach to embroidery design, through the proper use of materials and traditional stitchery. The book is written without affectation, and with a wealth of inspiration and informative guidance. The relatively easy path
, towards the production of refined, elegant and useful everyday objects, is illustrated with articles suitable and beautifully made with a feeling for contemporary design. This is not a new creed, but rather the rebirth of an established one, wherein new materials and well-established methods are combined to produce embroidery for today’s use which is both lovely and exciting. The challenge that every piece of household linen
could be graced with some decoration is one that today’s needlewoman can meet with every degree of inventiveness, through what has been described as creative leisure-time occupation
. The author extends an invitation to the reader; her book offers an approach to embroidery design which is essentially practical, and she shows that the forms most suitable for application to this craft are formalised shapes rather than slavish copies from nature.
I commend this volume wholeheartedly to those who wish to devote thought to a craft which demands a degree of fastidious care in its execution, and which is so much a part of our heritage.
March, 1954
CONTENTS
Foreword by Maurice Wheatley, Senior Art Inspector to the London County Council
List of Photographic Illustrations
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
HISTORIC BACKGROUND
VARIOUS KINDS OF EMBROIDERY APPROPRIATE TODAY
MATERIALS AVAILABLE TO THE MODERN CRAFTSWOMAN
Colour – Textures – Exploiting Patterned Materials – Choosing Suitable Fabrics
HOW TO BEGIN
Why not a design of your own?
COLOUR
TYPES OF EMBROIDERY:
MAKING TOYS—THREE-DIMENSIONAL EMBROIDERIES
MAKING ORNAMENTAL BOXES
PIN-CUSHIONS
FLAT STITCHES
DRAWN FABRIC WORK
CANVAS WORK
QUILTING
Bibliography
The Needlework Development Scheme
Index
ILLUSTRATIONS
The following is a list of photographic illustrations only
CONTEMPORARY
EMBROIDERY DESIGN
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Perhaps the most important quality needed in a competent embroideress is an inquiring mind, an awareness of things. She should be capable of realising the limitations as well as seeing the possibilities of her craft.
Today the embroideress has at her disposal a positive gamut of materials, for modern science has made it possible to produce dyes in every conceivable hue, and the fabrics, on which to execute the embroideries,