- Hardcover: 128 pages
- Publisher: Batsford Ltd (27 Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0713487798
- ISBN-13: 978-0713487794
- Product Dimensions: 27.7 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 949,016 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Traditional Chinese embroidery is the oldest embroidery known to the world. Exquisitely fine work is the hallmark of the best Chinese embroidery, with some threads as fine as a strand of hair. Here, for the first time, the secrets of this ancient craft are revealed with clear text, step-by-step line drawings, and stunning photography of finished antique and modern pieces. It covers: - Brief history of Chinese embroidery - Special equipment, such as frames and needles - Fabrics - from the various silks to the use of man-made fabrics - Threads and their preparation - splitting, twisting and plying - Flat stitches, including satin stitch and its variations as well as scale piling (used to create fish scales) with step-by-step illustrations and instructions - Knot stitches, including Pekin knot, seed stitch, Bullion Knot, Long-tailed knot and Pekinese stitch with step-by-step illustrations and instructions - Double-sided and Double-faced embroidery, in which the embroidery is exactly the same on both sides with step-by-step illustrations and instructions.
About the Author
Josianne Bertin-Guest has been studying Chinese embroidery for over 20 years (and has a PhD in the subject), and she has distilled some of the information gathered from her research as well as her regular practical teaching sessions (undertaken here and in China) to write this book.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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best in traditional chinese embroidery,
By Malvika (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Chinese Embroidery: Traditional Techniques (Hardcover)
I do a lot of embroidery myself and after reading the above book found it very simple to follow with nice easy instructions.Author has taken alot of time to illustrate something that is quite difficult to do so . Hope that author will be able to do a Book 2 at some stage and certainly looking forward to that
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