RSN Essential Stitch Guides- RSN Essential Stitch Guides: Silk Shading

A new, larger format edition of the Royal School of Needlework's essential guide to silk shading, giving you all you need to create thread-painted embroideries. The Royal School of Needlework (RSN) teaches hand embroidery to the highest standard, developing techniques in new and innovative ways. RSN Graduate Apprentice Sarah Homfray guides you through the RSN's methods for skilfully blending silk or cotton threads to create the smooth, sumptuous and luxurious appearance of a flower, fruit, plant or animal. The techniques include key stitches including the fundamental long and short stitch, as well as couching, design work, adding beads and sequins and padding, making this a fantastic source of reference. The book also includes a section in which the techniques are combined to create finished pieces, all beautifully and exquisitely worked by the author. A new, larger format edition of the classic reference work on silk shading by the Royal School of Needlework (RSN). The Essential Stitch Guides provide a set of definitive works on traditional embroidery techniques. Graduate Apprentice Sarah Homfray throws light onto the beautiful craft of silk shading, also known as painting with a needle, long and short stitch embroidery or thread painting. This book reveals the history of the craft then moves on to the materials and equipment required. Next, Sarah covers design and using colour, simplifying and demystifying this often neglected area of embroidery. The main part of the book then covers all of the essential stitches and techniques through clear, step-by-step diagrams, coupled with beautiful, close-up photographs showing how they can be used in a finished piece. Key traditional techniques are included: the fundamental stab, split and long and short stitches; along with…