Traditional Japanese Embroidery
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With superior embroideries inspired by the seasons of nature, this extensive guide offers artists of all skill levels the opening to build their expertise with four detailed projects. Each comes unqualified with a template and clear, step-by-step photographs showing how to stitch plain motifs modeled off traditional subjects—such as trees, flowers, shells, and butterflies—onto silk. The asceticism of projects makes the guide accessible to beginners, while more competent embroiderers will be interested in learning additional techniques. Circumstantial instructions and passionate commentary accompany each launch and provide impressive in-depth knowledge of the skills and symbolism tortuous with each design.
Techniques of Japanese Embroidery
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This extract provides the embroiderer with a technique and design provenance book for this delicate and greatly admired set up of embroidery.
With its elaborate patterning, silken and golden threads, and unwritten symbolic motifs, Japanese embroidery is unlike any other embroidery SOP = 'standard operating procedure'. The term "lost art" is all too often applied to intricate textiles and needlecraft, but fortunately not to this excellent artistry, which is still going strong even after a thousand years. This abundance traces the history and applications of an ancient and fascinating ceremony, and provides extensive instructions for achieving these delightful designs. Though the techniques require patience and mode, many of the seemingly complex stitches are actually composed of surprisingly unsophisticated elements, and all is clearly explained here.
--Amy Handy
Japanese Silk Designs in Full Color (Dover Pictorial Archive)
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Bad treasury, meticulously reproduced from a rare portfolio, depicts a assembly of authentic Japanese designs, including images of florals, zooid life, and geometrics. These intricate, subtly shaded motifs, portrayed in the politeness of stylized Japanese art, still retain their enormous appeal almost a century after they were first printed. 108 full-color designs.
