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The Embroidery Pages:

A Listing of the Available Pages in the

History Of Embroidery of America Section.

Please use the link buttons on the left or the text links below.

 

 

A list of pages in this small attempt at embroidery history:

The Arts and Crafts Movement
Blackwork
Candlewick
Crazy Quilting
Crewel embroidery
Deerfield embroidery
Hardanger
History, and overall look, Part I
Part II
Part III
Mountmellick work
Mourning Samplers
Needlepoint
Embroidery from the Pennsylvania Dutch
Reticella/Reticello whitework
Samplers
Silk Ribbon
Stumpwork
Whitework--which is where "Whiteworks" came from 

   What women have embroidered

Designing your own hand embroidery motifs for surface embroidery.  NEW!!

 

PLEASE read through the comments made about America's history of embroidery by visitors.  

 

 

 

A most wonderful site for hand embroidery is Heritage ShoppeDianne Lewandowski, proprietor of Heritage Shoppe, has mentored with some of the finest certified instructors in Canada, Australia, and the U.S. Her works have appeared in Sew Beautiful magazine. She received her "mastery" in Shadow Work from EGA in 1997.  In 2001, EGA accepted two Group Correspondence Courses for the membership and she is currently the chairman of the EGA Master Craftsman program in surface embroidery. She has taught EGA chapters in many cities.  Please visit her wonderful site, full of free downloads, diagrams, and a forum devoted to surface embroidery.

 

A very good source for all kinds of embroidery supplies is http://www.victoriancottagetreasures.com/index.php 

Also:   http://www.nordicneedle.com  

 

 

Suggested reading!!