Embroidered Treasures: Birds: Exquisite Needlework of the Embroiderers' Guild Collection - Hardcover

Buch 2 von 3: Embroidered Treasures

Collinge, Dr Annette

 
9781782211327: Embroidered Treasures: Birds: Exquisite Needlework of the Embroiderers' Guild Collection
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1782211322 ISBN 13: 9781782211327
Verlag: Search Press Ltd, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Unprecedented access to the prestigious Embroiderers' Guild's huge collection of embroidered birds through the ages, complete with detailed comments about each piece.

This fantastic book showcases the Embroiderers' Guild's huge collection of embroidered birds through the ages. Featuring photographs taken especially for the book, items are shown in full and also with detail images to show off the birds at their best. These wonderful embroidered treasures are as varied as wall hangings, dresses, bridal bags and samplers, some of which date back to the seventeenth century. The images are shown with extended captions giving the country of origin, age, size and the embroidery techniques employed to make them. Now housed in the Bucks County Museum (UK), the collection hails from countries such as China, Japan, North America, Spain, Greece, Italy, Turkey, Norway and Switzerland. This books represents an opportunity to see fabulous embroideries that are rarely seen in public.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Annette Collinge has had a lifelong interest in embroidery. She is a life member of The Embroiderers' Guild, has been a Branch Chairman, Regional Chairman and Trustee of the Guild, and she is currently the Collection Manager. She is a mixed media textile artist and is a member of the exhibiting group, Studio 21, a group of textile artists who bring together a creative and innovative mix of media and stitched textiles

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Verlag
Search Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1782211322
ISBN 13 
9781782211327
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
128
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