Vintage embroidery

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Inspiration for picking up a piece of cloth and create texture and depth with a few hand stitches.

I am so excited to have won this old catalog on ebay for only $15, which was a great deal in my opinion. It is big (11 x 13) and although the cover is shelf-worn, the pages are pristine and the illustrations are wonderful. The catalog contains pictures of every Simplicity needlework pattern in their 1948 library. The pictures are very detailed (they appear to be the illustrations/photographs on the original pattern envelope), and it would be easy to duplicate many of the embroidery and…

Thanks to university libraries and dedicated individuals in the United States and around the world, it is possible to find hundreds of free, out-of-copyright needlework and embroidery books and pat…

Vintage embroidery books are full of instructions, descriptions of beautiful works and valuable information on the history of needlework and hand embroidery. Check the list of 26 free online vintage embroidery books to find some pearls!

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Unknown. Design for a white-work embroidery pattern. British, 1810-1825

Well, all of the patterns on this site are vintage but some are waaay older than others. I like 'em all regardless of decade.

It's already a beautiful day here in the garden of England, although sadly I will be stuck to my pc all morning, bashing out an essay which is due in by lunchtime - arghhhhh!!! Before I hit the books, I wanted to show you this beautiful piece of embroidery that I found in a charity shop a few weeks ago. It was rather shrouded in a tatty old frame with dirty glass, but underneath was revealed this charming piece of vintage embroidery. This quintessential English cottage garden scene is my…

For those of you that fear a needle...this one might make you overcome that fear. I never saw it before but it is perfectly clear now...it is sewing on graph paper! Five cents a copy. Prepared by the Educational Bureau of Coats and Clark. I'm having such trouble trying to figure out which one I need to do first, second, third.... The last half of the pamphlet will come tomorrow. Well, go get your needles! Download the pamphlet pages here.