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Twenty-Five Patterns, Two Stitches, One Skill

Every filling pattern in this book comes down to two stitches worked with discipline: a reversible double running stitch, the same one Tudor embroiderers once worked into linen cuffs and collars, and an ordinary back stitch. Sixteen chapters and twenty-five named patterns build outward from those two stitches alone, from a ten-swatch practice sampler to a bordered table runner fifty-four inches long.

From Sampler to Table Runner

• Learn the reversible Holbein stitch first, on a scrap of 28-count evenweave, so both sides of every piece look equally clean.
• Read a blackwork chart correctly, where a symbol marks a line's direction rather than a filled square the way a cross-stitch chart does.
• Work all ten geometric fills in the opening sampler, from an open Box Fill through a near-solid Solid Diamond Block, each one named on its own.
• Build seven finished pieces: a sampler, a coaster set, bookmarks, two monochrome hoop pieces, a silhouette, a card, and a table runner.
• Shade a rose and a pair of floral hoop motifs using stitch density alone, with tonal shading standing in for a second color of thread.
• Void a cat silhouette against a filled ground, so the animal's shape exists only because the fabric around it isn't stitched.
• Switch between a 28-count evenweave and a 14-count Aida cloth whenever a pattern needs to run larger or smaller on the page.

Taught in the Order You'll Use It

• Every technique chapter comes before the project that needs it, and each project names exactly which chapter its skill came from.
• All twenty-five patterns were charted from scratch, then stitched start to finish on real fabric to confirm every stitch count on the page.
• Every pattern needs nothing more exotic than tapestry needles in size 24 to 26 and two or three strands of black floss, never a specialty tool.
• Density families, light, medium, and dense fill, are taught as one system before any shading technique asks you to combine them.
• Finishing gets its own chapter, covering mount-board framing, hoop finishing, and simple hemmed edges, before a project asks you to use them.

By the last chapter: you will have handled every stitch family this book teaches and built the judgment to chart a fill of your own. A finished sampler, four coasters, three bookmarks, two hoop pieces, a silhouette portrait, two cards, and a table runner sit on the shelf as proof, not a stack of practiced swatches.

Readers Who Pick This Up

• Someone who has never threaded a needle and wants real instruction, not just inspiration photos.
• A cross-stitcher curious about a chart that reads direction instead of a filled square.
• A stitcher who wants seven real finished objects, not twenty-five swatches destined for a drawer.
• Anyone drawn to Tudor-era needlework who wants the technique, not just the look of a finished museum cuff.

A hoop, a needle, and a single skein of black cotton are the entire kit this book asks for. Every chart, every density decision, and every finishing method gets taught in the order you will actually use it, so nothing in the later chapters ever depends on a skill the earlier ones skipped over.

This is the reference you'll still be counting threads against years from now.

Parametry knihy

• Plný název: Blackwork Embroidery Explained
• Podnázev: A Beginner's Guide with Clear Instructions for Working Every Pattern and Stitch Path
• Autor: Isale Heida
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 152
• EAN: 9798173112828
• ID: 53856864
• Nakladatelství: Independently published
• Hmotnost: 370 g
• Rozměry: 280 × 216 × 8 mm
• Datum vydání: 09. September 2026

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