Old emboirdery stitches
April 15, 2012
I came across another old book from the Anchor Needlework Series. Book No5 price 1/-. From the designs in the book I would think that it was published in the 1940's or 50's. Not all of the pages are there and many of the stitches seem to have been inspired by Indian Embroidery.
There are two little birds that have been used as a design to stitch around the hem of a babies dress. The stitching is very fine and delicate and there are 12 birds around the hem of the dress. I have enlarged the images so that I could see the stitching. I think that it would work as a larger desgin stitched in a thicker thread and would make a great motive on a tote bag, although the eyelets and drawn thread work might have to go.
I have redrawn the birds so that they are around the 5" size . Download Anchor birds
Another thing I have to stitch.
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