MARY THOMAS'S VINTAGE DICTIONARY OF EMBROIDERY STITCHES 1936 WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

Hundreds of needle stitches for embroidery are gathered in this exhaustive volume. Accompanied sketches clear directions, and an endless variety of stitches for the avid embroidery fan.  The book is divided into stitch types, as opposed to an alphabetical directory. This is useful if you know what kind of stitch you want. Do you want to stitch an outline? Do want some ideas for filling stitches? You can look them up easily this way. It's more helpful than wanting a line stitch and looking through an index at names like "Palestrina" or "coral" and not knowing what type of stitch it is. Step-by-step directions of thread direction, etc., are given on the more complex stitches. On simple stitches, generally only a one-step diagram is supplied, and this generally suffices. While there are plenty of other stitch distionaries on the market, this one seems to be a standard. I know I like it for quick and easy reference. It suits both beginner and advanced embroiderer, and it's relatively inexpensive. www.needlenthread.com/2006/10/dictionary-of-embroidery-stitches.html

Hodder & Stoughton Great Britain 1936 (five shillings) Hardback 234 pages, clean pages well-binded, little wear to it.