Bead Embroidery

Essential Stitch Guides

by Shelley Cox

This series of Essential Stitch Guides has been produced in close collaboration with the RSN with the aim of providing a set of definitive works on traditional embroidery techniques.

Genres: Crafts, Nonfiction

96 pages, Spiral-bound

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Rhiannon D'Averc · Rating 4 out of 5]

Generally good guide and lots of pretty things to look at. I did feel a bit disappointed when I tried the various stitches out on a sampler: many of them, particularly the diagonal patterns, have very little to distinguish them and look almost identical in practice with the same thread colour. Still, a useful resource for some new ideas.

[Joanne Hayward-Lavallee · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great primer for beginner bead embroidery.

[Wendy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have recently purchased this book. Same author, also spiral bound but a total different cover. The date of publication is 2013 so presumably it is planned to re-publish this book with a new cover in 2014. Good basic instructions, no projects, some of the photography should perhaps be enlarged for better close up detail. I personally could have done without the rather expansive section of counted thread stitches.

[Heather Cawte · Rating 3 out of 5]

Useful and inspirational, as all the books in this series are. But this was not as well written as the others, with actual errors in some of the instructions, and some of the examples photographed for each stitch or technique looked quite messy and uninspiring.