Redoute's Finest Flowers in Embroidery
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.35 (991 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1863512934 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
“Trish Burr has painstakingly recreated blooms from the paintings of 19th century botanical artist Pierre Joseph Redoute in exquisite embroidery. Using only the simplest stitches, she provides instructions, illustrations and photo- graphs to take you step-by-step through stitching 17 beautiful buds—roses, lilies, birds of paradise, dahlias, magnolias and more. A gorgeous gift for anyone with a passion for flowers or needlework.”—Vogue Patterns.
These have inspired the embroideries of Trish Burr in this book. Karenplatt: Early nineteenth century botanical artist, Frenchman Pierre Joseph Redoute is renowned for his paintings of flowers. Each project gives detailed materials and colours of thread (standard available world-wide). . We then get into the meat of the book, the seventeen projects from Camellia, Rosa, iris, Anemone and many more favourites. The book initiates the beginner into creating delightful stitchery with an introduction, basic materials and equipment and the stitches to master to get you off to a good start. Every aspect of this book is accompanied by crystal clear line drawings and good photographs to guide you through the process. Trish takes seventeen paintings and transforms them into beautiful embroideries with great detail and colour. She uses simple stitiches and yet manages to create a complex effect with to
Redoute, whose paintings often grace the walls of many of our homes, and has personally stitched all the projects in this book in the hope that they will be enjoyed by other stitchers globally. She particularly admires the works of the French artist P.J. . Trish Burr is a self-taught embroiderer who hungrily consumes all aspects of this fine craft. Through research and practi
Detailed instructions, beautiful patterns Although you can't "Look Inside" this book at Amazon (currently, anyhow), the cover is exactly representative of the projects inside. This is no encyclopedia of a billion stitches, but a book focused tightly upon reproducing Redoute's beautiful botanical prints in "thread painting."There were sever. Four Stars Liked it. Helping me to learn to do needle painting.. "Redoute's Finest Flowers" according to Barbara. There are several good reviews of this book, but I want to add my delight in buying it.1. Every flower on the cover, and all flowers inside the book, have complete project instructions: photograph of complete flower, line pattern, exact thread color, and stitching instructions.2. The stitches which