Silk Ribbon Embroidery
A Workshop Approach For Beginners
by Helen Dafter
Nothing quite has the delicate appearance and tactile charm of silk ribbon embroidery, and despite looking
complicated is in fact fairly straightforward. Learn how with this new book, now available outside Australia
thanks to Search Press.
I do like a practical book that takes a "workshop approach," as surely the point of these primers is to
teach a skill, and reading about it is only part of the learning process. You don’t need much to take up this
hobby, and the author does not intimidate the reader with lists of peripheral items. To be of even greater use,
what is needed here are more color photographs showing how to actually do the stitches. There are some line
drawings, but not enough to be helpful to beginners at whom this book is largely aimed. The instructions to go
with the projects at the back are better at this, and there are four beautiful pieces to make. But there is a
lot of rather daunting reading here and usually only one or two line diagrams per stitch or process, and I found
myself getting rather lost and trying to envisage it all. My advice would be to get this book (which certainly
tells you what you need to know) in conjunction with another with some better staged diagrams, and then you will
be on your way to becoming a proficient silk ribbon embroiderer.
If you cannot find silk ribbon embroidery materials locally, try
SearchPress.com for a list of suppliers. |
The Book |
Sally Milner Publishing (distributed in UK by Search Press) |
October 2007 |
Paperback |
9781863513678 |
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The Reviewer |
Rachel A Hyde |
Reviewed 2007 |
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