Books
These books will enable embroiderers to learn a range of stumpwork techniques and to develop designs of their own using their favourite motifs and colours.
How to order
- Stumpwork Embroidery - A Collection of Fruits, Flowers and Insects for Contemporary Raised Embroidery
- by Jane Nicholas, Sally Milner Publishing, 1995 Hardcover, 190 pages.
- Code: BK1 Price: $59.95
- This book explains, in a clear and comprehensive manner, how to work traditional stumpwork techniques including wired, detached embroidered shapes and padded appliqué. It provides full instructions and step-by-step illustrations for working over forty flowers, fruits and insects, and 18 projects featuring these motifs.
- Stumpwork Embroidery - Designs and Projects
- by Jane Nicholas, Sally Milner Publishing, 1998 Hardcover, 192 pages.
- Code: BK2 Price: $59.95
- A sequel to Book 1, this volume introduces 28 new motifs and 19 projects which depict field flowers, pansies, roundels with scrolling floral designs, animals including a deer, and a collection of needlework accessories. Detailed instructions and by step-by-step illustrations show the individual motifs with great clarity.
- Stumpwork Dragonflies
- by Jane Nicholas, Sally Milner Publishing, 2000 Hardcover, 95 pages.
- Code:BK3 Price: $49.95
- Learn how to create these beautiful, delicate creatures in stumpwork embroidery using a variety of materials and techniques. There are comprehensive instructions and step-by-step illustrations for working a stumpwork dragonfly, three dragonfly projects and a specimen box of nine dragonflies and damselflies.
- The Stumpwork, Goldwork and Surface Embroidery Beetle Collection
- by Jane Nicholas, Sally Milner Publishing, 2004 Hardcover, 424 pages.
- Code: BK4 Price: $69.95
- Lavishly illustrated in colour, this book, with detailed step-by-step instructions accompanied by numerous explanatory diagrams, explains how to create beautiful beetle-themed designs and projects in stumpwork, goldwork, beading, appliqué and surface embroidery, using a variety of threads and materials, including beetle wings.
- The Complete Book of Stumpwork Embroidery
- by Jane Nicholas, Sally Milner Publishing, 2005 Hardcover, 400 pages.
- Code:BK5 Price: $69.95
- Following the enormous success of her recent publications, this book brings together in one volume the first two titles from Jane Nicholas. It combines the techniques, stitches, instructions and projects of the popular Stumpwork Embroidery - A Collection of Fruits, Flowers and Insects and Stumpwork Embroidery - Designs and Projects.