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    101 Needlepoint Stitches and How to Use Them: Fully Illustrated with Photographs and Diagrams
    101 Needlepoint Stitches and How to Use Them: Fully Illustrated with Photographs and Diagrams
    101 Needlepoint Stitches and How to Use Them: Fully Illustrated with Photographs and Diagrams
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    101 Needlepoint Stitches and How to Use Them: Fully Illustrated with Photographs and Diagrams

    By Hope Hanley

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    Tired of doing the same basic stitches over and over again? Noted designer Hope Hanley can help you bring new excitement and beauty to your needlepoint in more than a hundred different ways. In this practical, extremely well-organized guide she presents a treasury of 101 decorative stitches, with an easy-to-read chart and an actual-size photograph for each one.
    Only stitches which adequately cover the canvas have been included in this versatile collection. In Tapestry no warp threads are allowed to show through, so why let canvas show in needlepoint? Enhance and individualize your needlepoint projects with expert advice on a host of exquisite stitches: rep stitch; fancy cross stitch; Renaissance stitch; cross stitch; Herringbone stitch; shaded stripe stitch; double stitch; mosaic stitch; French stitch; Greek stitch; velvet stitch; closed cat stitch; and scores more.
    The author explains precisely where and how to make best use of each stitch (as a filling stitch in small areas, as a background or a grounding pattern), and tells whether each is slow or quick to work up and whether it's best on mono or two-thread canvas. No stitch combinations have been included, just the fundamental stitch. Think up your own combinations — there are hundreds of them!
    Whether you're a beginner, intermediate, or advanced needleworker, give your needlepoint a vibrant new look with this modestly priced, indispensable reference work.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateJun 14, 2012
    ISBN9780486141916
    101 Needlepoint Stitches and How to Use Them: Fully Illustrated with Photographs and Diagrams

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      101 Needlepoint Stitches and How to Use Them - Hope Hanley

      Copyright © 1964, 1975, 1977, 1986 by Hope Hanley.

      All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.

      This Dover edition, first published in 1986, is an unabridged and corrected republication of the work originally published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, in 1977 under the title The Craft of Needlepoint: 101 Stitches and How to Use Them. That work was based on Needlepoint, originally Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, in 1964, and revised and enlarged in 1975.

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501

      Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

      Hanley, Hope.

      101 needlepoint stitches and how to use them.

      Reprint. Originally published: The craft of needlepoint. New York : Scribner, 1977.

      Includes index.

      1. Canvas embroidery. I. Title. II. Title: One hundred one needlepoint stitches and how to use them. III. Title: One hundred and one needle point stitches and how to use them.

      TT778.C3H359 1986 746.44’2 85-20743

      9780486141916

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      THE STITCHES

      INDEX

      DOVER BOOKS ON NEEDLEPOINT, EMBROIDERY

      THE STITCHES

      The most efficient way to learn the stitches is to do them. Then you can see just how they will look for your design purposes. A picture or diagram just does not show the size relative to other stitches or the contrasting textures. Working a sampler is really an excellent way to make these discoveries. It is also a permanent record of the stitches that you are not liable to give away as you would with finished items. All you need to make a sampler is half a yard or less of mono-canvas, less than that of a two-thread canvas, needles and about four ounces of yarn. Bind the edges of the canvas with binding tape or masking tape and you are all set to go. A dressmakers’ chalk will mark off squares if you want to make a precise sampler, or you can just mix them random style. You will find as you work that design ideas will suggest themselves to you, so write them down; you’ll surely forget them otherwise. A sampler will show you just which stitches are the wool-eaters, and which bias the canvas. Keep in mind when you choose your sampler wool that light colors show texture best.

      Two of the following stitches have tramé as a base. It might be well to explain now just what it is. Some canvases are sold with the background and possibly the subject done in a long horizontal basting-like stitch. This is tramé. It is used on these canvases to show what colors to use and to indicate the design. The right amount of wool and the right colors of wool are included with this type of canvas as a sort of kit. One stitches right over the tramé as though it were not even there. It is an understitching. It must be laid on in irregular series, as it will form ridges if done in regular rows. Tramé may also be used to add body to a stitch, to beef it up, and this is its purpose with the stitches included here. To figure the extra wool needed to tramé, just halve the number of mesh per inch of the canvas you are using and add two inches to the figure for each square inch. Thus if you are using fourteen mesh canvas, half of fourteen is seven plus the two added inches equals nine extra inches of wool for each square inch of tramé.

      The following table lists suggested uses for the stitches. It is just a guide line for you to follow until you are familiar enough with the stitches to make your own judgments on them. The word filling means a stitch to be used in an enclosed area, not the background.

      Only stitches which adequately cover the canvas have been included in the following collection. In tapestry no warp threads are allowed to show through, so why let canvas show through in needlepoint? No stitch combinations have been included, just the fundamental stitch. Think up your own combinations, as there are literally hundreds of them.

      Tramé on penelope canvas

      From the number of initials on the motif sampler it would appear that a group of friends all took part in making it. Many colors were used in the figures, the background is black, and the stitch is the half cross. The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

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