Antique Edwardian Arts Crafts Embroidery Patterns CD 07

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1907 Arts & Crafts (Aesthetic Movement)

 Edwardian Embroidery Linen Reference Book & Catalog

EMBROIDERY LESSONS 

with COLORED STUDIES

 The Latest & Most Complete Book on the Subject of Silk

Embroidery & Popular Fancy Work

This item is a CD REPUBLICATION an antique book and includes Embroidery Lessons, and Illustrated Projects with Written Instructions, Charts, Floss Colors and 18 ADDITIONAL FULL-PAGE SIZED SOFA PILLOW TOPS FROM THE VICTORIAN ERA!!!

A hardcopy version of this book sold the first week of June, 2004 for $180.27!

Here you can have all it contained, and MORE, for a fraction of the price!!!

If you are the first to bid on this auction, using the buy-it-now option, YOU WIN!! There is no chance of being outbid! DON'T WAIT!!

Up for bid is a CD-ROM of the original "Embroidery Lessons with Colored Studies " published by the Brainerd & Armstrong Company in 1907! These folks provided some of the best instruction books for the needlearts ever published! The experienced needlecraft and fancywork artesians of the late 1800's (Victorian era) clamoured for this type of item and with good reason! (Original is NOT for sale)

This HISTORIC book contains an UNABRIDGED 176 PAGES of steel plate etchings, instructions, designs and fundamentals for creating the extremely handsome soft furnishings of the Victorian era! There are an additional 18 FULL-PAGE SIZED ANTIQUE EMBROIDERY PATTERNS for PILLOW OR SOFA TOPS included from another Victorian pattern source!

These patterns can be resized (using the enlarge or reduce options on commonly accessible photo copiers) for embroidered doilies, center pieces, crazy quilt, red work, black work, white work and more! You will also find historical facts on this ancient craft as well as various RARE and UNIQUE guidelines to assist you along the way to recreating the needleworked items of a classy and gentile society!

It a mix of general to expert levels of the Arts and Crafts movement needleart and MISSION STYLE DESIGNS AND TINTED SOFA CUSHIONS FOR EMBROIDERY. The strongly styled arts and crafts movement designs and colors are clearly seen in the listing photo.It includes colored plates and many illustrations.

See table of contents below.

These instructions are characteristic of the fancy work done by our oh-so-feminine lady ancestors during the Victorian era! This is the perfect opportunity to purchase your own version of another wonderful craft book revealing our heritage from early America and Europe!

Contents:

Good Silk for Good Work

Care of Hands and Selection of Needles

Embroidery Hoops

Laundering Embroidery

Some Additional Helps

Table of Flowers

The purpose of the following table is to enumerate in alphabetical order our different designs and to show the pages where the instructions are given for working them:

American Beauty Rose

Bridesmaid Rose

Bachelor Button

Blackberry

Buttercup

Callifornia Pepper Berry

California Poppy

Cattail

Cherry

Clover

Columbine

Currant

Daisy

Dandelion

Dogwood

Easter Lily

Forget-me-not

Fringed Gentian

Fuchsia

Gentian (Fringed)

Geranium

Golden Rod

Holly

Hollyhock

Honey-Sickle

Jack Rose

Jonquil

Lilac

Lily (Easter)

Morning Glory

Narcissus

Pansy

Pepper Berry

Poppy (California)

Poppy (Red)

Rose (American Beauty)

Rose (Jack)

Rose (wild)

Strawberry

Sweet Pea

Tulip

Violet

Wild Rose

Meaning of Botanical Words

Single and Double Threads

Direction of Stitches in Turn-over Leaf or Petal

Rule for Sewing Lace or Fringe to Edges

Embroidery Stitches

Lessons in Embroidering Flowers

Eyelet Embroidery

Montmellick Embroidery

Shadow Embroidery

Hedebo Embroidery

Centerpieces and Doilies on Tan Linen

Mission Designs

Tinted Sofa Cushions for Embroidery

Novelties for Embroidery

Fish Set for Embroidery

Hemstitched Centers, Doilies and Scarfs

Plus Various Wonderful Advertisments from the Victorian and Edwardian Eras

~~~ Pretty much everything you need to make the dainty silk Victorian household embroideries but the antique or vintage threads, fabric, hoops or frames, etc. Those can be readily found on eBay! You just have to hunt a little bit! :) Or, you can obtain the contemporary materials at your nearest fabric or craft store...

~~~ Thank you for viewing my auction! Please check my other auctions for a variety of interesting vintage & antiqued items.

This information has been scanned onto CD-ROM using the Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF format. You may download the latest FREE version of this software quickly at www.adobe.com . This is NOT a copy of another CD-ROM. You will receive an ORIGINAL CD of this resourceful book.

The text is viewed easily from your computer or you may choose to print each page as you read this amazing book on antique beadwork. Every page has been meticulously scanned, cleaned and burned to preserve this ANTIQUE book's information and patterns to CD-ROM! The format of this resource has so many more advantages than the original book.

What are the benefits of an antique book republished on cd?

* Every image and every page has been scanned at a high dpi to produce crystal clear images and you never have to deal with any crumbling old paper!

* These scans are completely sizable. You can enlarge and print according to your visual needs! They are reformated in full-page sizing for better viewing of details, etc.!

* Each page is saved in PDF format at a high dsi and is readily accessible using the downloadable Adobe Acrobat Reader software program. This program is very user friendly and allows you to print any one specific page, pages or the entire book!

* Each time you want to use an image, a page or pages you can print it out. Every one will be as crisp and clear as the last!

* Each CD-ROM comes in a protective case!

Curious about the quality of these scans? Please contact me and I will forward an image for your own personal inspection! Scale it, edit it, print it to fit your needs and you are surely going to be quite pleased with the results! You will appreciate the attention taken in providing a TOP QUALITY PRODUCT that you will use for many years to come...

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