* 1889 NEEDLE-CRAFT : ARTISTIC AND PRATICAL , Butterick Publishing Company , 1889, New York, Available Online via The Project Gutenberg

 

Dear followers,

Today I would like to share with you all a complete downloadable book, made available online by the Gutenberg Project.

The Needle - Craft : Artistic and Practical  was published in 1889 by the Butterick Publishing Company , a company founded by the father of graded sewing patterns Ebenezer Butterick.

Before putting it aside as just another old book, and even if you are not a fan of traditional crafts and much prefer the use of your sewing-embroidery machine, take a moment to appreciate the evolution of the costumes and how some stitches changed name with time.

The Persian Stitch is a perfect of example of a stitch now known commonly as rug stitch. 

The author encourages combining stitches and proposes a perfect combination of a St George Stitch encapsulated in a diamond stitch, but without any Religious meaning attached to the embroidery itself,

I used this book to copy designs into a paper using my heat transfer pencil brand "USA" so I can at a later stage embroider gifts,

The first design will be the cover of a tote bag,

The second gift will be for my eldest son,

Because his childhood was a dream full of love which I received much love from him and his brother,

But which as a mother I have to realise that just like the past memories treasured in this book published 1886, ' Needle-Craft, Artistic and Practical' , is a dream that we will always share together as a family while the world keeps turning and eventually only the good we made to others remains as a foundation wall to the betterment of other's lives.

This book truly fulfils its purpose of being artistic and practical and we humans have much to learn from this book in terms of applying the practicalities of embroidery to our surroundings but also of letting the good purpose of each thing and person remain in our lives and be counted as worst remembering , according to the good and the love it exhibited towards  others.

I truly could not praise this book more than I do because not only teach us about art but conveys a great deal of information in a didactic manner to anyone interested in mastering crochet, lace, needlepoint on canvas and fancy embroidery.

 

The patterns are easy to copy or transfer and the Project Gutenberg ( last time I checked) allows download of the book , so you can perfectly well transform the images into other formats and direct them to your computerised  sewing-embroidery machine. 

I prefer doing it by hand, but is just me.

Hope you find this book useful,

Best wishes,

Ariane Crafts

PS- The pictures typo "1896 " but the publication year is 1889. Rather late here in Britain, almost midnight, and this long Friday is weighing on me.