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Title: Color and Design for Embroidery: A Practical Handbook for the Daring Embroiderer and Adventurous Textile Artist by Richard Box ISBN: 1-57488-272-4 Publisher: Brasseys, Inc. Pub. Date: June, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Very useful book for any embroiderer
Comment: The title of this book is rather deceptive in that you certainly don't need to be adventurous or daring to find this book helpful. I do sedate landscapes and found his book an excellent guide. Basically, if you do the least bit of original design in your work - altering an element or two, changing colors around - or if you do whole original works (but haven't actually gone to art school) this book is extremely useful. It covers the basics of design and color with a focus on the embroiderer or fiber artist. You can do all the suggested activities in the book in order as a complete design course, or pick and choose sections as needed. If you wonder why some of your works look great and others look, well, not as great, this book is for you.

Rating: 5
Summary: Open your embroidery to new dimensions
Comment: I have been lucky enough to get a copy of this book to review for BellOnline Embroidery site.

What a deceptive book this is! It is beautifully presented and one tends to think that it is merely another coffee-table book that can be flipped through whilst watching TV.

Not so: this is a very in-depth look at how to design your own embroideries. So in depth, in fact, that I am actually sitting down just to study it, with no distractions!

Richard Box has written a very informative book that looks at all aspects in design of embroidery and needlework, with both practical and observing exercises in each section.

At the end of the book, you will be able to confidently sit down and design an embroidery by yourself, and may be hooked on doing so.

The author puts his aims best himself in the Introduction when he says"

"Your exclaimation 'I feel happer with a needle in my hand' may become 'I now feel happy with a pencil in my hand too'."

The book is full of pictures of embroidery, and other textile arts, with a technical look at the elements of the design that they have in them.

Well done Richard, I say.

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