A new, larger format edition of the Royal School of Needlework's
essential guide to silk shading, giving you all you need to create
thread-painted embroideries.
Graduate Apprentice, Sarah Homfray throws light onto the beautiful craft
of silk shading, also known as painting with a needle, long and short
stitch embroidery or thread painting. Sarah:
- Reveals the history of the craft. then moves on to the materials and
equipment required.
- Covers design and using color; simplifying and demystifying this
oft-neglected area of embroidery.
- Covers all (main section) of the essential stitches and techniques
through clear, step-by-step diagrams and photographs, coupled with
beautiful, close-up photographs showing how they can be used in a
finished piece.
- Includes key traditional techniques: the fundamental stab, split and
long and short stitches, along with couching, padding, adding beads and
sequins, and knots.
- Ends with beautiful and exquisitely-worked examples of how the
techniques can be combined in finished pieces, and covering working with
different fabrics, threads and incorporating painted backgrounds.
The RSN teaches hand embroidery to the highest standard and is well
respected all over the world. It not only upholds the traditions of
English embroidery that go back many hundreds of years, but is
constantly taking embroidery forward in new and innovative ways.
