Two
ribbon embroidery enthusiasts have got together in this book
to share their passion for their very special form of this
craft. The three dimensional pictures depict flowers made
from ribbon with the addition of embroidery floss, beads,
fabric and wire.
This is a book to sink into, a veritable box of delights.
Despite the advanced nature of the projects – they all
look like work only a professional would be able to tackle
– the wonderfully clear instructions and staged photographs
make it all doable. There are lots of tips and tricks in here
to get the most out of the materials, and before you actually
make anything plenty of instruction on making stems from wire,
creating a non-fray glue from melting soluble fabric, working
with beads to create seed pods, embroidering tiny insects
and more. You can have a practice making all these things
before you make them in earnest for the projects themselves,
a great idea. Each of the eight projects show in exhaustive
detail exactly what to do and what you need to get and covers
several pages. This is the cloth and thread counterpart to
the step by step painting books, and like them it works. You
truly can go from somebody who has never thought about making
three dimensional ribbon flowers with wire stems, replete
with embroidery worked in both ribbon and floss to somebody
who has just done it. I know, as a fair bit of all this I
had never done before myself and now can. At the very back
are several excellent and simple drawn diagrams of the various
stitches used and no words are needed. It is all very impressive,
and a great way to learn a lot surprisingly quickly. Probably
the best craft book of 2014.
If you cannot find a good range of ribbons locally try www.searchpress.com
for a list of suppliers. Website links are given in the book
for those in South Africa and Russia.
Reviews of other titles by Di
van Niekerk
Dreamscapes
in Ribbon Embroidery and Stumpwork
Embroidered
Alphabets With Ribbon Embroidery
Cicely
Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies in Ribbon Embroidery and
Stumpwork
Little
Flowers In Silk and Organza Ribbon
Monograms
and Words in Ribbon Embroidery |