Author: Anchor Book
Publisher: David & Charles
Keywords: embroidery, stitches, thread, pulled, anchor, book, new
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $11.99
ISBN-10: 0715319167
ISBN-13: 9780715319161
The Anchor Embroidery Series offers the perfect introduction to popular embroidery techniques. Pulled thread is a type of openwork embroidery where the threads of the fabric are pulled back tautly to make decorative holes. This book introduces 27 stitches that can be worked in this way. In addition a further 18 counted stitches are featured that can be used to complement the pulled thread work. All stitches are explained in step-by-step detail. Sixteen original charted designs explore the exciting textural effects that can be achieved: e.g., coil filling stitch perfectly captures the see
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Publisher: David & Charles Publishers
Keywords: anchor, book, series, stitches, canvaswork, embroidery
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1997-11
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0715306316
ISBN-13: 9780715306314
An introduction to canvaswork, presenting 48 stitches and a wide range of ideas for using them. Each of the worked designs has been developed with a view to exploring the textural effects which are such a feature of canvaswork, and each stitch is explained and illustrated in step-by-step diagrams.
Author: Anchor Book
Publisher: David & Charles
Keywords: embroidery, stitches, freestyle, book, anchor, new
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $11.99
ISBN-10: 0715319175
ISBN-13: 9780715319178
The Anchor Embroidery Series offers the perfect introduction to popular embroidery techniques. The decorative and creative possibilities of freestyle embroidery are explored to the fullest in this indispensable book. Starting by covering basic techniques such as selecting fabrics and threads, transferring an embroidery design to fabric, and working with a hoop or frame, it goes on to explain 48 stitches in step-by-step detail. These are listed alphabetically, from Antwerp Edging to Wheatear Stitch, for ease. It is often said that an embroiderer can create beautiful work from just a few stitche
Author: Anchor Book
Publisher: David & Charles
Keywords: embroidery, stitches, blackwork, book, anchor, new
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $11.99
ISBN-10: 0715319299
ISBN-13: 9780715319291
The Anchor Embroidery Series offers the perfect introduction to popular embroidery techniques. Blackwork is a counted thread embroidery technique in which repetitive patterns are used to fill outlined areas. This book covers the materials and equipment needed, the essential stitches, and outlines in step-by-step detail the working of 49 infill patterns. It is sure to become an indispensable reference for stitchers. Blackwork was originally so called because black thread was most often used on white fabrics, but many of the 16 original charted designs provided show how this technique can
Author: Kate Poole
Publisher: Ellora’s Cave
Keywords: storm, anchor
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2009-02-09
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 1419958836
ISBN-13: 9781419958830
Edgar Armstrong, Earl of Callander, had not given much thought to marrying and producing an heir...until he meets Emily Sinclair. When their easy companionship grows into love, they learn that Edgar’s progressively debilitating disease could be passed on to his children. As their joy turns to despair Edgar finds a solution. If he can’t get her with child he knows just the man who can. But will Emily agree to his plan? Angus MacNeill, Lord Callander’s groom, thinks Emily married Edgar for his title, his money and the security he can give her. And when Edgar approaches him w
Author: Michael V. Fox
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: commentaries, bible, yale, anchor, proverbs
Number of Pages: 752
Published: 2009-07-21
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0300142099
ISBN-13: 9780300142099
This volume completes Bible scholar Michael V. Fox’s comprehensive commentary on the book of Proverbs. As in his previous volume on the early chapters of Proverbs, the author here translates and explains in accessible language the meaning and literary qualities of the sayings and poems that comprise the final chapters. He gives special attention to comparable sayings in other wisdom books, particularly from Egypt, and makes extensive use of medieval Hebrew commentaries, which have received scant attention in previous Proverb commentaries. In separate sections set in smaller type, the author
Author: Marvin H. Pope
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: commentaries, bible, yale, anchor, job
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 1965-02-19
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0300140754
ISBN-13: 9780300140750
This third edition of the "Anchor Bible Book Of Job" (Volume 15 in the series) contains numerous new, revised or augmented notes. Of special interest is the inclusion of readings from the earliest translation of the "Book Of Job", the recently published "Targum" (Aramaic translation) recovered from Cave XI of Khirbet Qumran, in the Judean Wilderness near the Dead Sea, perhaps the version which was suppressed by Rabbi Gamaliel."The Book Of Job" is one of the indisputably great works of world literature. The story is well-known: a prosperous and happy man, distinguished for rectitude and piety,
