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| #1356031 in Books | Friedman/Fairfax Pub | 1995-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 11.75 x10.25 x.75l, | File type: PDF | 160 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Nope.|By Merganser|This volume was a complete disappointment. There are gorgeous designs, but the most interesting ones (to my mind) are not charted-- - the English Landscape, the Hollyhock screen, the Waterfall. Instead, one is expected to take a close-up of a detail of a large design and work from there. The book is not improved by Kaffe Fassett's self-congratulatory forew|.com |More a wellspring of delicious inspiration than a true how-to book, Jill Gordon's Needlepoint is filled with exquisite ideas and loads of colorful photos of her luscious designs. In their subtle shadings and even their subject matter, they resemble
The roots of needlepoint go back thousands of years to the ancient Egyptians, who used small slanted stitches to sew up their canvas tents. Howard Carter, of Tutankhamen fame, found some needlepoint in the cave of a Pharaoh who had lived around 1500 BCE. Modern needlepoint descends from the canvas work in Tent Stitch, done on an evenly woven open ground fabric, that was a popular domestic craft in the 16th century.The development of needlepoint was influenced in the 17...
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