a few new books

Over the past few weeks I’ve either bought or been given a few new books.

“Embroidered Textiles” by Sheila Paine. This is an amazing, thick book detailing the embroidery used around the world in different cultures. It has many, many coloured photos and is wonderful to inspect in great detail.

“The Goodhart Samplers” by Bromiley Phelan, Hansson and Holdsworth. This is another very heavy book with lots of wonderful close up photos of the embroideries. For anyone interested in samplers from the 16 and 17th centuries, this book is fabulous.

“The Proper Stitch” by Darlene O’Steen. I must say that I have been a bit disappointed by this book – I was expecting more from it. It doesn’t include all the stitches I expected it to, and I’m not really sure why it is so expensive… Good book, but not what I was expecting.

“The Complete Stitch Encyclopedia” by Jan Eaton. This is an old book, but new to me. I had borrowed it from my local guild library and found it so useful that I decided to get myself a copy from Ebay. It was easier, quicker, and almost cheaper to buy it from Ebay than to go down to the guild to borrow it again!

Some of these have been acquired for the purposes of writing my left-handed stitch dictionary, but others were purely and simply for personal interest. Not sure how I’m going to fit these on the bookshelves… Have to do a bit more squeezing in!