🧵 Optimized Blackwork Embroidery: Enhancing Your Needlepoint Skills (From Dover Embroidery) Review

Total disappointment! If you plan to use templates, do not order this book. It has blurry images, sketches and drawings. I liked the bird and leaves on the cover, which aren't even in the book. I was also looking for ideas on what stitches work for different subjects. It will boil again!

This is an old book revisited but it contains the basics and lots of history. It's dated, so if you're looking for something flashy 2000s you'll be disappointed, it's more of a 1970s in the sections that talk about adapting blackwork to 'modern' design. It doesn't bother me, but it might bother you. I think the book's other merits far outweigh this particular detail, and even with outdated 'new' designs, it gives you a good base to create your own embroidered pieces using various blackwork…

This book was written in 1965 but I really appreciate this book because it is mostly about the history of blackwork embroidery and has historical photographs which I am a fan of the costume. However, this first section takes up more than 1/4 of the book "Historical Review and Abridged Bibliography" which can be tedious and a waste of time if you are a person looking for a modern book with color pictures and a focus on learning. Methods showing step-by-step instructions with pictures of the…