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  • Publisher: Search Press
  • Edition: BB Hardback Hardback folder with paperback book and iron-on transfer papers
  • Publication: 15 June 2020
  • ISBN 13/EAN: 9781782216421
  • Stock: 50+
  • Size: 216x280 mm
  • Illustrations: 700
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $25.00
  • Series: Kew Books

The Kew Book of Embroidered Flowers (Folder edition)

$25.00

11 inspiring projects with reusable iron-on transfers by Trish Burr

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Book Description

Create beautiful flower embroideries inspired by Kew’s Royal Botanic Gardens with this how-to embroidery book featuring 11 step-by-step projects, full-size templates, and iron-on embroidery transfers.

Focusing mainly on long-and-short stitch and Trish Burr’s considered use of silk shading, this how-to flower embroidery book contains all the embroidery stitches needed, clearly illustrated, and gives thorough advice on preparation and choosing fabrics and threads, including a handy thread conversion chart. You’ll put your skills to the test in 11 embroidery projects with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions:

  • Begin with a ‘starter’ embroidery project to help you practise various techniques
  • Move to the large sampler project featuring 18 small elements that can be worked individually or as a group
  • Keep practising your skills in 9 other flower embroidery projects, like an elegant water-lily and an opulent magnolia
  • Also included in the back of the book are full-size templates and easy, reusable iron-on embroidery transfers.

Get started today, and create your own embroidered flower garden inspired by the botanical artworks from Kew’s Art Collection.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Kew 6
Introduction 8
What is needle painting? 10
Tools and materials 10
Preparation 16
Stitch instructions 20
Securing your thread
Long-and-short stitch
Split stitch
Satin stitch
French knots
Bullion stitch
Practise the stitches
Outlines 30
Raised embroidery 32
Anatomy of a flower 34
Useful advice before you start 35
Simple projects 36
Japanese anemone 38
Flower sampler 44
Clematis 94
Camellia 100
Intermediate projects 106
Rhododendron 108
Waterlily 116
Iris 122
Spider chrysanthemum 128
Advanced projects 134
Rose 136
Magnolia 144
Poppy 154
Thread substitutes 163
The templates 164
Using the iron-on transfers 176

Extra Information

For the best results, learn how to use the iron-on transfers here.


Click here to view the Errata slip for this title.

About the Author

About Trish Burr

Trish Burr is a self-taught and renowned embroiderer. Through research and practice she has developed this individual technique of surface embroidery. She is the author of several highly successful books including The Kew Book of Embroidered Flowers and Trish Burr's Embroidery Transfers. Trish lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. For more information on Trish and her work visit www.trishbembroidery.com

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