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Vintage French needlework : 300 authentic cross stitch patterns--flowers, borders, and alphabets from antique textiles

Vintage French needlework : 300 authentic cross stitch patterns--flowers, borders, and alphabets from antique textiles

Maillard, Véronique, author.
Book 2024

"Sharing the result of her years combing dusty attics, archives, brocantes, and antique shops for vintage handstitched items and rare needlework manuals, embroidery expert Véronique Maillard here offers the patterns used by French women in the 1800s and early 1900s to prepare their dowry chests or to customize their household linens. Until a few generations ago, French women spent winters monogramming or marking their household linens. Today's s...

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Alphabets
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ISBN:
9780764367649 (hardcover)
9780764367649
Description:
439 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes:
English translation from the French
Includes index
Contents:
Introduction
Small alphabets
Monochromatic alphabets
Two-color alphabets
Monochromatic designs & motifs
Two-color designs & motifs
Multicolor designs & motifs
Index of designs by letter height
Index of designs by border size
LCCN:
2023941130
Control Number:
3331296
Other Authors:
DeWald, Rebecca, translator
Maillard, Véronique. Ouvrages de dames:300 grilles au point de croix. English
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