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Instructions, patterns, and sources for needlework.
Background, resource links, plus pages including stitch dictionary and a few free patterns.
American Needlepoint Guild - background and illustration.
"Original Blackwork Patterns Inspired by Historical Sources" - downloadable patterns.
Issues online in PDF format - in-depth articles on ethnographic and historical embroidery.
Instructions, diagrams and images.
Embroiderers' Guild links page.
History of crewel embroidery from the Caron Collection Online Magazine. Beautiful pictures of crewel work.
How-to page for passementerie buttons and making cord. Online store carrying historically accurate tools (including tambour
hooks, bodkins, and lucets), fibres, reproduction tapes, braids, lace, brass buttons, plus costume accessories.
Brief information and links for 16th and 17th century embroideries.
Facsimile ca. 1606 patterns for lace and needlework - with downloadable, modernized patterns.
Images of authentic regional embroidery, with instructions and diagrams.
Information on counted thread work, tapestry, and more.
Information and instructions for various period embroidery and laces - blackwork, metalwork, raised embroidery, and reticella.
Overview.
Background, tips, sources for information and designs.
Examples in art.
Fabric to choose for your purpose.
Patterns and instructions. Site also has pages of articles on various types of embroidery.
Embroidery articles.
Blackwork article in PDF format; images and articles on company projects.
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