ANST - Needle Work Question

[Mark.S Harris]

Aline Swynbrook wrote:
> I am thinking of taking up embroidery and am looking for a good
> refernce or 6.  Any suggestions?

Any particular kind of embroidery? You might be interested in
looking through some of the files in the TEXTILE ARTS section of
my Florilegium. There are some useful ideas and hints from various
embroiderers as well as a number of period referances and book
recommendations. Here are a few of the files in that area:

cross-stitch-msg  (38K)  2/ 3/99    Period and SCA cross-stitch.
embroidery-msg    (93K)  8/28/98    Period and SCA embroidery.
embroidery-SW-msg (18K) 11/18/97    Stumpwork. A type of raised embroidery.
emb-blackwork-msg (56K)  7/21/99    Blackwork embroidery. 
emb-frames-msg     (9K) 10/16/96    Period and SCA embroidery frames.
emb-linen-msg     (15K) 12/ 2/97    Embroidery linen sources.
Bayeux-Tap-msg    (30K) 10/30/98    The Bayeux Tapestry. Book reviews.
p-x-stitch-art    (20K)  3/ 1/99    "Cross Stitch Embroidery in the Middle
Ages 
                                       and Renaissance" by Karen Larsdatter.
tapestries-msg    (35K)  3/17/98    Medieval and SCA tapestries.

My files can be found at either:
http://lg_photo.home.texas.net/florilegium/index.html
or http://lonestar.texas.net/~lg_photo/florilegium/

Hope this helps get you started.

Lord Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
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