Book Description
“Trish Burr has painstakingly recreated blooms from the paintings of 19th century botanical artist Pierre Joseph Redoute in exquisite embroidery. Using only the simplest stitches, she provides instructions, illustrations and photo- graphs to take you step-by-step through stitching 17 beautiful buds—roses, lilies, birds of paradise, dahlias, magnolias and more. A gorgeous gift for anyone with a passion for flowers or needlework.”—Vogue Patterns.
Customer Reviews:
Acceptable to some?.......2007-07-16
I have found this book to be a disappointment, but only because I already own Trish Burr's Long & Short Stitch Flowers. The text is basically a copy of Long & Short Stitch and the embroidery appears to be not as refined. No need to own both.
Detailed instructions, beautiful patterns.......2006-08-31
Although you can't "Look Inside" this book at Amazon (currently, anyhow), the cover is exactly representative of the projects inside. This is no encyclopedia of a billion stitches, but a book focused tightly upon reproducing Redoute's beautiful botanical prints in "thread painting."
There were several things about this book that stood out for me:
Not the Kitchen Sink
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Trish Burr wisely restricts herself to a relatively few stitches: long-and-short, satin, stem, split, bullion knot, French knot, and perhaps a couple more. They are presented clearly, in diagrams and words (and photos in some cases), and followed by a small sampler. Then come the Redoute projects...
Clear Presentation
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Each flower (there are 17) is presented in the same format:
- First, a large-scale photograph of the stitched piece, along with a list of needles and other materials.
- Then, three line drawings: one for the pattern outlines, one to define which areas are padded or detailed, and one to show color placement.
- Another, smaller photograph on the same page spread as the diagrams
- A verbal explanation gives details on stitching each part of the flower: which stitches, in what order, how many strands.
Ms. Burr writes in her Introduction that she aims for clear illustrations and good explanations, and she has achieved her target admirably. Although the format as I've described it may sound repetitive, I found it refreshing not to have to flip back and forth between pages, searching for color keys or stitch info--and equally refreshing not to have all the directions crammed into one cryptic diagram. (Anyone who has ever struggled to decode the projects in "A to Z of Ribbon Embroidery", for instance, knows what I mean. Sumptuous photos of the projects, but figuring out how to reproduce them is murder.)
Unusual Selection of Subjects
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It's easy to find embroidery books on English flowers, and many of them are truly gorgeous (Helen Stevens' Masterclass series comes to mind), but if you're looking for something different, something... well, something French!, this may be just the thing for you. Instead of pinks and cornflowers and foxgloves, here are lilies and iris and camellias and magnolias. Roses, morning-glories, and a few exotics like amaryllis, bird-of-paradise, and poppy are also represented. Again, the cover illustration gives a good idea of what you'll find inside. It ain't no cottage garden!
Achievable
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All projects are stitched using easily available DMC embroidery floss. None of the stitches are jazzy or difficult. The instructions are so clear that even a relative novice should be able to achieve exciting results. (Again, Helen Stevens comes to mind, but alas, as a counterexample. I love looking at her books, but they have never given me the slightest bit of confidence that I could do work like that.)
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All in all, an excellent book, well worth the money. Bravo, Ms. Burr!
Excellent; Honors Redoute Well, Easy to Use.......2003-12-01
The book provides all of the information anyone would need to teach themselves to embroider at home. The results are terrific. The author has done a superb job of recreating Redoute's elegant flower portraits. There is a great deal of value packed into this small book. Worth the price
Redoute's Finest Flowers in Embroidery.......2002-11-26
I bought this sight unseen which is unlike me but this surely would cause me to try that again !!! It is a needlework book of a higher level. By that I mean the novice and the expert can do it; only skill improves the work appearance. It is fully creative embroidery. I am making all 17 project designs and developing them into a moire quilt or cushions. The designs are smallish (5" or so ) but can then be incorporated into whatever your heart desires. They are very fast to do with any fabric of your choice for any textile idea you might hae in botanicals.
Great Book.......2002-07-07
Until now my only stitching has been Cross Stitch, but
having seen this publication it just makes me want to try to re-create just a fraction of the wonderful work Trish Burr has put into this book.
She makes it seem so easy, which I am sure it is not; it is
all very well explained, colourful, easy to follow and anyone
interested in stitching should have a copy.
My recommendation to all those stitchers out there "Buy a copy".
Book Description
Throughout the history of decoration, floral compositions have been one of the designers' main sources of inspiration. Almost every historical style includes designs based on flowering plants. Today, too, floral patterns are ubiquitous in fashion, advertising and many other forms of decoration. Floral Patterns, a resource book with over 120 color designs - all saved on the enclosed free CD - is reworked, improved and expanded version of one of the most successful volumes in this series.
Customer Reviews:
useful book.......2007-01-05
this book can help any designer and any artist.
this book contains many options for so many designs.
its a beautiful book and the fact that there is a cd inside helps a lot and very usefuly.
Book Description
Treasury of 89 choice, black-and-white cuts depicting superbly rendered roses, sunflowers, tulips, lilies, crocuses, carnations, iris and many other single and clustered blossoms. A versatile collection that's an ideal addition to any artist's archive of ready-to-use illustrations. Disk contains all items in book.
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful Book.......2000-09-20
This book has a wide range of floral images for various projects. The CD is great; saves scanning time and frustration. Highly recommended.
Book Description
Over 350 handsome designs — selected from such rare Victorian-era magazines as The Art Journal, and The British Printer — depict lovely floral and foliated motifs as decorative embellishments on a saucer and teacup, on picture frames and wall sconces, as flowing patterns that lend themselves well for use as frames and borders.
Book Description
Magnificent collection of floral patterns and stencil designs, created by one of the movement's finest artists, includes 120 images of graceful garden flowers —foxglove, hollyhocks, columbine, lilies, among others, and 39 stencil designs of blossoming trees, reeds, mushrooms, oak leaves, peacocks, and more.
Customer Reviews:
Best of Verneuil.......2007-02-28
This book exceeded my hopes. It had many more images in full color than I expected for such a cheap book. I have seen other books by Verneuil and they were half as nice and mostly black and white. I think anyone into decorating, drawing, and painting will like this book. It will inspire you to create art nouveau lines and flowers on your own work.
Good designs.......2006-11-05
If you are into art nouveau, you will enjoy this Dover book. Again many variations on floral themes.
Beautiful artwork, beautiful reproductions.......2006-06-07
I thought the artwork in this book was stunning, and the reproduction quality and colors were lovely. I did have one major problem with the book, two of the main designs on the cover (topmost horizontal design and the center horizontal design) are NOT IN THE BOOK! These are two of the main patterns I planned to use from the book, and now if I want to, I need to get them from the cover, where they are covered by text. I found this to be unacceptable! Please keep this fact in mind if the cover is what won you over.
Fine Art professional point of view .......2006-03-21
This book helps me in my work big time. I'm free freelance artist and right now I'm working on my next big project in Art Nouveau style and I can not imagine my work without this book.
Sit down before you open this one.......2006-01-14
Dover Publications is the friend of anyone with nearly any sort of interest (and not much money). If you're interested in the ways and means of New Art, get this one.
M. Verneuil clearly would have liked the Dover editors. LIke them, he had his wide-ranging interests, in his case in botany, Japanese design, and decorative arts (to judge by his booklist).
This book is a feast that shifts back and forth from stylization and abstraction on one hand to close observation of natural plant forms on the other. One two-page spread (plates 62 & 63) in particular juxtaposes both this reduction into pattern and the accuracy of his eye.
These are the crown imperial and the German iris from Verneuil's Etude de la plante. Side views of each plant give you the random visual complexity of the original -- almost scruffy leaves, in the crown imperial's case. Both set forth the visually overwhelming detail of the blossoms. But, at the bottom of both plates are plan views of a blossom, simple, regular and compelling as a Japanese mon.
If the rest of Verneuil's plant book is this good, I'm hoping Dover reprints the whole thing one day.
When Verneuil moves to greater depths (or is it heights?) of abstraction, the results are often stunning. Don't miss plate 27, an overall pattern of maidenhair fern in shades of orange, or plate 28, a tiled pattern of wild iris in rippling water.
It's interesting to compare the sunflowers in plate 79, apparently a detail from a running line of tiles, with the one in plate 59 from Etude de la plante. The latter captures the petals in wild abandon, the leaves in their rough, almost papery reality. The former flattens and regularizes each leaf, and views the flowers head-on, giving us a literal sunburst of shape and color in complex but regular pattern.
Throughout, M. Verneuil brings a solid color sense, now playing with shades of neighboring hues, now with contrasting hues. Each one seems absolutely right.
You can't open this book to any page without feeling that the mind and eye that originated it were pretty special. It's more than likely that some of this impression is due to the care of Carol Belanger Grafton, who selected and arranged the plates -- many of the two-page spreads seem to delight in comparing, or mirroring, or contrasting Verneuil's designs.
If you like art nouveau, you'll want this book.
Book Description
Superb treasury of 319 royalty-free designs skillfully rendered from French, English, German, Swiss, and Russian textiles of 18th and 19th centuries. Profusion of flowers, leaves, sprays, branches, fruits, and birds in varied formats: clusters, bouquets, single vignettes, more. Descriptive captions.
Customer Reviews:
great for embroidery.......2007-01-25
Very useful for my simple goldwork embroidery designs. Some need enlargement and others need to remove some of the lines not needed for goldwork. Could also work with crewel embroidery although I haven't done that yet.
very simple.......2001-03-22
This book can be a very helpful one if you're looking for simple designs.It is a sample of flower motifs mostly english and french from the 19th century and some oriental motifs as well.It is all black and white patterns and it looks a lot like a coloring book.It is an OK book if you're starting with the idea but very simple if you want to go indepth.I would recommend it if you're interested in crafts in general and also if you work with kids.
Book Description
This versatile collection presents 136 exquisite floral designs for copyright-free use. Ready-to-use designs of popular flowers, native wildflowers, houseplants, shrubs: Lily, African Violet, Camellia, Dogwood, Tulip, Holly, and dozens of others. Ideal for needlework and craft projects, graphic arts, etc. 136 black-and-white illustrations. Publisher's Note. Index. of flowers.
Customer Reviews:
Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists, Needleworkers and Craftspeople.......2007-05-14
The book has great designs to spark "inspirations".
Book Description
From lush African foliage to bright Dutch tulips, cultivate cross-stitch gardens of flowers around the world. Color photographs display the designs on cushions, bolsters, wall hangings, samplers, and other beautiful items. “You’ll love the thrill of armchair travel with needle and floss.”—Just Cross Stitch.
Customer Reviews:
Lifelike flower designs..........2003-03-24
Cross-Stitch Florals is a design book of bright and crisp images. Not all the charts have photographed finished textiles, but the charts that have been photographed are very attractive. The colors used are bold, bright and lifelike. Included are: Anchor to DMC chart, and inches to metric chart. Color charts (555) are on 10x10 grid, easy to follow, with a floss legend on each page. The introduction includes: fabric, floss, design size, needles, stitching and finishing techniques. The finished pieces have vivid, true to life colors and the color photos are inspiring. It will take some imagination for 90% of the charts that aren't photographed, but this book is a nice addition to a stitching library. I purchased it after looking through the book, so I wasn't surprised by the few color photos.
Whats all the negative fuss about?.......2003-01-29
I thought this book was very interesting when I got it. There are really unusual floral designs. They want you to work them as a grouping. Sure, you have to use your imagination on the end result, but so what. I would rather have more graphs then pages of talk and pictures. Really unusual, classy, designs. Vases, realistic flowers, unusual animals and borders. I think some of these will be good for a man and his office. And we know how hard it is to find mens designs.
Simple designs, but very good........2002-04-04
I really like that the designs are printed in color. They are simple but beautiful. This is my favorite of Marie Barber's books.
Nice collection; not destined to be a favorite........2001-12-20
This book falls short of my favorite Marie Barber book: Gifts of Nature: An American Sampler. The qualities that I liked most about that book are missing from this one. There, Marie had large samplers that were photographed in finished form as well as including ideas of how to pull out portions of the designs for smaller projects. This book is loaded with small patterns but few are shown combined or photographed finished. I would like some suggestions on how to use these patterns individually or combined. I also miss the size charts that tell me how big the finished design will be based on thread count of fabric used; call me lazy.
I have worked a few of these designs, and they are easy to follow as are all of Marie's patterns. So I would say that this is nice book for someone who is looking for a collection of small, simple floral patterns.
Beautiful, but oh so disappointing!.......2001-10-24
I saw this book on this website and as I am an avid cross stitcher and a Marie Barber fan to boot, I decided to buy it after looking at a picture of the front cover and reading the synopsis on the book. However, when it arrived at my doorstep, I was terribly disappointed to see that 90% of the patterns in the book were not shown as completed projects. The book is jam packed full of, what seem to be, lovely patterns, but only about 10% of the patterns are shown as finished. This was a great disappointment to me as I like to look and see what the finished item looks like before I start to stitch it. This helps me to decide whether I am going to use the recommended fabric, or try one in a colour of my own. As far as I am concerned, the author spent so much time packing the book full of patterns that she never took the time to get all the projects stitched and photographed for display. Because of this, I find myself staring endlessly at a pattern that I think I might like to stitch, only to put the book down in disgust, not wanting to waste my time starting a project that I might turn out to dislike. All lovers of the art of Cross Stitching will know what I am talking about when I say this. Finally, and this is the greatest frustration to me, but there is no dialogue in the book....just pages and pages and pages of patterns that may or may not stitch up to the satisfaction of the stitcher. So, the book spends more time on my shelf than it does in use and I regret the wasted money. Having said all this, I still rate the book 3 stars as I don't think I would be too disappointed should I try out one of the patterns as Marie Barber's work is usually a delight to me. However, for those of you who like to see the finished result before you start stitching, this book will be a great source of frustration. It certainly is that to me.
Book Description
Treasury of rare Victorian-era designs for borders, wreaths, cushion squares, sprays, and other projects. Includes patterns for verbena, strawberry, lily, and many more.
Customer Reviews:
Designs.......2006-03-01
Was happy to receive this purchase only 2 weeks from the date it was purchased.
Very clear designs, well classified by possible usage, borders, centres, wreaths, corners, centres, powderings, allover pattersn, brids and butterflies, tablecloth centres and cushion squares, sprays.
Good source of inspiration for artists to be.
Book Description
419 Renaissance illustrations from Clusius’s botany. Beautifully rendered, accurate. Use directly, or adapt.
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Long and Short Stitch Embroidery: A Collection of Flowers (Milner Craft Series)
Royal School of Needlework Embroidery Techniques
The Embroiderer's Floral: Designs, Stitches & Motifs for Poular Flowers in Embroidery
Helen M Stevens Embroidered Gardens (Masterclass Embroidery)
Helen M. Stevens Embroidered Flowers (The Masterclass Embroidery Series)
