Weldon's Practical Shilling Guide To Fancy Work: Mountmellick Work

Spiral Bound Book Republication™

Originally Published by Weldons, LTD, London - c1885

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Up for bid is another marvelous Dakota Prairie Treasures antique needlework Spiral Bound Book Republication of our original "Weldon's Practical Guide to Fancy Work: Mountmellick Embroidery!" This information was originally published in Great Briton c1885! (Original is NOT for sale)

Our new line of Spiral Bound Book Republications™ oh-so-conveniently lie flat while in use!

This is a unbelievably nice touch if you have every tried to read a pattern's instructions while your hands are full of your in progress project. As an avid needleworker myself my personal experience prompted my choice of spiral binding for it's ease-of-use alone. I bet you'll love it too!

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This HISTORIC item contains 23 steel plate etchings or engravings of delicate and dainty apppearing Mountmellick embroidery stitches with clear instructions, stitches and fundamentals for creating delicately beautiful, dainty embroidered embellishments! It even addresses the historic background of this art!

Excerpts:

"Mountmellick Embroidery is a handsome, strong, and durable work…; the embroidery is much raised, and is consequently thick and heavy, and requires a substantial material like jean to hold the stitches, for a foundation of thin texture would give way under the weight of the embroidery, but good firm materials being selected Mountmellick work will repay all the time and labour expended on it, as it is rich and effective in appearance, not difficult of execution when once the stitches are mastered, and moreover possesses the great merit of washing over and over again and remaining good to the last."

" Mountmellick work in eminently suitable for quilts, pillow shams, toilet covers, nightdress sachets, comb and brush bags, and dressing-table Mats and pincushions…Bold, handsome designs of flowers, such as passion flowers, sun flowers, lilies, &c., in groups, or in single flowers, are especially applicable to Mountmellick embroidery…"

Now I am certain the creative fiber and thread artists out there can visualize and conceive many, many creative uses for this art in our modern-day world way beyond the cultural confines of those when this item was created. I could see this art being useful with curtain and clothing embellishments, wall hangings, bed and bath linens, table covers and runners, baby items and gifts galore for the quickly upcoming holiday season!

I have added a bonus to this item! I have included several full-page size (c1885) Mountmellick doily patterns to get you started!

What a historically educational and delightful art instructional piece this is!

Contents:

* Stitches Used in Mountmellick Embroidery

* Crewel Stitch, or Outline Stitch, otherwise Called Stem Stitch

* Overcasting

* Chain Stitch

* Bullion Stitch Applied to a Leaf

* Buttonholing and French Knots

* A Leaf worked in Flat Satin Stitch or Overcast Stitch

* Method of working a Leaf in Flake Stitch

* Knitting Fringe for Trimming Mountmellick Work

* Couching

* Single Feather Stitch

* Double Feather Stitch

* Treble Feather Stitch

* Herringbone Stitch

* French Knots

* Wide Overcasting

* A Leaf Worked in Raised Satin Stitch

* Feather Stitch and Bullion

* Bullion Stitch

* Double Bullion Stitch

* Wheat-ear Stitch

* Cording Stitch

* Double Cable Stitch

* Snail-Trail Stitch (love that name!)

* Cable Plait Stitch

* Cable Stitch

* Cable Plait and Overcasting

* Single Coral Stitch

* Double Coral Stitch

This item goes in depth both verbally and visually to demonstrate and clarify the working of these 28 embroidery stitches.

Here is an OLD, resourceful and exceptional Mountmellick embroidery stitch instructional item. These instructions are characteristic of the fiber and thread art done by our lady ancestors! This is the perfect opportunity to purchase your own version of another wonderful craft book revealing our heritage from early America and Europe!

A lot of stuff here...useful for the beginner to more advanced level needleworker. I am sure it will help keep you busy a long, long time! Lots of fun, easy to follow instructions with remarkably attractive results! I just love this information and am sure you will, too!

The ladies of earlier times put their hands to such marvelous work and now you can too! These are beautiful items and sure to delight you and yours! These instructions are very clear and easy to follow and yet the experience fiber art and thread worker will be capable of altering as per individual needs and artistic whim.

FYI: The antique, vintage and contemporary silk, linen and cotton thread and fabrics are available on eBay! You just have to hunt a little bit! :^) Or, you may purchase contemporary materials at you nearby hobby, fabric or craft store!

The Spiral Bound Book Republication™ you will receive is representative of the types of handicraft expertise of earlier genteel and feminine American and European culture! If you're into nostalgia like I am you will have many hours of enjoyment recreating antique needlework items for yourself or others dear to your heart just the way your great-grandmothers did!

You will appreciate the attention taken in providing a TOP QUALITY PRODUCT that you will use for many years to come. This information has been scanned at a high resolution and electronically revamped to provide you with the very best hardcopy reproduction. Unlike other reproduction sellers this is NOT a cheap, grainy photocopy! Our Spiral Bound Republication™ has so many more advantages over the original book.

What are the benefits of our antique book Spiral Bound Book Republications™?

* Our products are produced with front and back covers of heavy stock paper.

* Our products are made using the latest LaserJet printing technology meaning the ink will not smear like inferior photocopy or inkjet products do.

* Our spiral binding allows your book to lie flat during use for ease of viewing while working on your needlework projects.

* Our products do not cost a small fortune for you to obtain and enjoy.

* Every image and every page has been scanned to produce crystal clear images and you never have to deal with any crumbling old paper!

* These scans are enlarged to full-page dimensions for ease of viewing!

* You can gift these wonderful Victorian, Edwardian pattern book finds with family and friends!

Curious about the quality of this item? Please contact me and I will forward an image for your own personal inspection! You will appreciate the attention we have taken in providing you with a TOP QUALITY PRODUCT that will be use for many years to come...

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