{"id":482,"date":"2010-03-13T07:38:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T04:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=482"},"modified":"2010-03-11T11:34:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T08:34:38","slug":"mary-thomass-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/03\/13\/mary-thomass-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Thomas&#8217;s Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am going to post a review of a book from my bookshelf: &#8220;Mary Thomas&#8217;s Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches&#8221;. This is a book I own and love.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/mary-thomas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/mary-thomas.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Thomas&#039;s Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches\" title=\"Mary Thomas&#039;s Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches\" width=\"200\" height=\"302\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-483\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/mary-thomas.jpg 200w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/mary-thomas-198x300.jpg 198w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/mary-thomas-99x150.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>In recent years, this book was completely overhauled and revised. Unfortunately I don&#8217;t like the new version at all. It looks cheap and nasty, and just doesn&#8217;t appeal to me. It gives me the impression that it has been &#8220;dumbed down&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>My copy of this book is the 1934 edition, and it is a real gem. It is a small hardcover book, with text and line drawings. It has a wonderful range of stitches, and while some of the instructions can be a little hard to follow, it is a book I would not be without.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally I would look at the method presented for a complicated stitch with lots of thread and needle manipulation and think &#8220;Surely there has to be an easier way than that?&#8221; So I would sit there and persist until I was able to get the exact same result, using an easier method. Often it would take some time and problem solving, but it was always great when I achieved it.<\/p>\n<p>The text of this book is fabulously interesting. Its the type of book I would read from cover to cover, because it is so fascinating. (Yeah, maybe I should get out more &#8211; who reads stitch dictionaries from cover to cover?!)<\/p>\n<p>If ever I want to look up a stitch, this is the book I go to (well, it used to be, before I wrote and published my own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vettycreations.com.au\/left-handed-book.html\" title=\"The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion\">stitch dictionary<\/a>!). Every embroiderer who is interested in stitches should own a copy of this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am going to post a review of a book from my bookshelf: &#8220;Mary Thomas&#8217;s Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches&#8221;. This is a book I own and love.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, this book was completely overhauled and revised. Unfortunately I don&#8217;t like the new version at all. It looks cheap and nasty, and just doesn&#8217;t [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-embroidery-stitches","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}