Fri Nov 8, 2019 10:41 AM

Went to our local needleworker’s guild the other night and there were a lot of new people with very little experience and I figured I’d post a book that had some very basic stuff that answered questions brought up. _Artistic embroidery; containing practical instructions in the ornamental branches of needlework_ by Ella Rodman Church, published in 1888. https://archive.org/details/artisticembroide01chur

It has a wide variety in it. The things that caught my eye were basics on transferring patterns and an intro to how to do double running stitch (Holbein) and determine the working path as well as several styles of couching