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Victorian Alphabets, Monograms and Names for Needleworkers: from Godey's Lady's Book
The Victorian woman put initials on nearly every piece of linen and clothing she owned — everything from handkerchiefs and blouses to tablecloths, napkins, and towels. The modern needleworker may not be quite so avid about initialing everything, but initials and monograms are still attractive and popular ways of decorating common items.
This book brings you a large selection of alphabets, initials, monograms, and common names from Godey's Lady's Book and Peterson's Magazine, the most popular American women's magazines of the Victorian era. Each is available in a variety of letter forms, so that you may find the most suitable for your sewing scripts, floral, geometric, Old English, block, ornamental, and many more. Although eminently usable for embroidery, there are also a number of alphabets for crochet and needlepoint. You will find these motifs of the highest quality — both easy to use and productive of professional-looking results.
For traditional embroidery and sewing needs, these alphabets, monograms, and names are ideal but you will also find them applicable to a number of modern for decorating blue jeans and hats, for patches, and even a variety of non-sewing needs.
This book brings you a large selection of alphabets, initials, monograms, and common names from Godey's Lady's Book and Peterson's Magazine, the most popular American women's magazines of the Victorian era. Each is available in a variety of letter forms, so that you may find the most suitable for your sewing scripts, floral, geometric, Old English, block, ornamental, and many more. Although eminently usable for embroidery, there are also a number of alphabets for crochet and needlepoint. You will find these motifs of the highest quality — both easy to use and productive of professional-looking results.
For traditional embroidery and sewing needs, these alphabets, monograms, and names are ideal but you will also find them applicable to a number of modern for decorating blue jeans and hats, for patches, and even a variety of non-sewing needs.
118 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1974
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November 29, 2014
It had a lot of great alphabets to look at for artistic purposes, but they are not really diagramed in a way that it shows you exactly how to stitch them. They are all black and white line drawings of various alphabets and monograms so they could be photocopied to somehow use a transfer, but you would have to figure out the stitching and coloring yourself. I am borrowing this book from the library to help give hubby ideas on lettering for his glass etching/engraving that he has been doing. I figured he could photocopy the alphabets he liked the most to practice working with them. Because they are more artistic and don't show the stitching diagrams they will work well for his purpose.
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