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17th C. Women’s Dress Patterns
Tiramani & North
5.0 Stars

18th Century Embroidery Techniques
by Gail Marsh
4.5 Stars

19th Century Embroidery Techniques
by Gail Marsh
4.5 Stars

20th Century Embroidery Techniques
by Gail Marsh
5.0 Stars

A-Z Embroidery Stitches 2
By Search Press
5.0 Stars

A-Z Embroidered Motifs
By Search Press
5.0 Stars

A-Z of Goldwork
By Search Press
5 Stars

A-Z of Stumpwork
Country Bumpkin
5.0 Stars

A-Z of Whitework
Country Bumpkin Publications
4.0 Stars

Abécédaires de Tradition
By Marie Clare
3.5 Stars

All that Glitters
By Alison Cole
4.5 Stars

Anchor Manual of Needlework
By J&P Coats
4.0 Stars

Art of Chinese Embroidery
By Margaret Lee
5.0 Stars

Art of Embroidered Butterflies
By Jane Hall
5.0 Stars

The Art of Embroidery
By Lanto Synge
5.0 Stars

The Art of Teaching Craft
By Joyce Spencer and Deborah Kneen
3.0 Stars

Arts & Crafts Embroidery
By Laura Euler
3.0 Stars

Autopsy of Montenegrin Stitch
Amy Mitten
4.0 Stars

Basic Principles of Schwalm Whitework
By Luzine Happel
5.0 Stars

Basics of Embroidery on Paper
By Erica Fortgens
4.5 Stars

Bead Embroidery Motifs
By Yasuko Endo
4.5 Stars

Bead Embroidery Stitch Samples
By Yasuko Endo
4.5 Stars

Beginner’s Guide to Crewel Embroidery
Jane Rainbow
4.5 Stars

The Beginner’s Guide to Goldwork
by Ruth Chamberline
5.0 Stars

Beginner’s Guide to Silk Shading
Clare Hanham
5 Stars

BiblioCraft
By Jessica Pigza
5 Stars

Blissful Beginnings
Country Bumpkin
4.5 Stars

Broderie et Dentelle sur Carton Perforé
By Veronique Maillard
5.0 Stars

Broderies Colbert (Colbert Embroidery)
Éditions L’Inédite – Paris
4.0 Stars

Bunnies in My Garden
by Jenny McWhinney
4.0 Stars

Colour Confidence in Embroidery
by Trish Burr
4.0 Stars

Crazy Quilting
Allison Aller
4.0 Stars

Crewel and Surface Embroidery: Inspirational Floral Designs
Trish Burr
5.0 Stars

Crewel Embroidery: A Practical Guide
By Shelagh Amor
4.5 Stars

Crewel Embroidery in England
By Joan Edwards
4.0 Stars

Crewel Twists
Hazel Blomkamp
5.0 Stars

Designing Celtic Ornament
David Balade
4.0 Stars

Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches
By Mary Thomas
4.5 Stars

Early American Crewel Designs
By Frances Bradbury
4.0 Stars

Early Kolacsa Embroideries
Folk Patterns
5.0 Stars

Early Schwalm Whitework
Luzine Happel
5.0 Stars

Elizabethan Stitches
Jacqui Carey
4.0 Stars

Embroidered Flora & Fauna: Three-Dimensional Textured
Embroidered Flora & Fauna: 3D Textured Embroidery
Turpin-Delport & Delport-Wepener
4.5 Stars

Embroidered Flowers for Elizabeth
By Susan O’Connor
5.0 Stars

Embroidered Portraits
By Jan Messent
3.5 Stars

The Embroiderer’s Handbook
Published by the same people who put out the A-Z series
5.0 Stars

Embroideries from an English Garden
By Carol Andrews
5.0 Stars

Embroidery Basics
Ceryl Fall
4.0 Stars

Embroidery on Paper
By Cynthia Rapson
3.0 Stars

Embroidery on Paper for Every Occasion
By Joke and Adriaan de Vette
4.0 Stars

Embroidery Stitch Bible
Betty Barnden
4.0 Stars

Embroidery Techniques and Patterns
Marie-Noelle Bayard
4.0 Stars

English Crewel Designs: 16th – 18th Centuries
By Frances Bradbury
4.5 Stars

Fancy Hems
By Luzine Happel
5.0 Stars

Fleurs en Transferts
By Huguette Kirby
4.0 Stars

Fashioning Fashion
LACMA Exhibit
4.0 Stars

Floral Interpretations for Silk Ribbon Embroidery
By Helen Dafter
4.0 Stars

Filet Lace – Introduction to the Linen Stitch
By Marie-Jo Quinault at Filet Lace By the Sea
5.0 Stars

Goldwork Embroidery: Designs & Projects
by Mary Brown
4.5 Stars

Home Sweet Home
By Carolyn Pearce
5.0 Stars

In Fine Style
By Anna Reynolds
5.0 Stars

Interwoven Globe
By Amelia Peck
5.0 Stars

Iron-On Transfers
Several Reviews in One Review
4.0 Stars

Magazines: Italian Cut Work and Filet Lace
Multiple volumes digitally refurbished by Iva Rose Prod
4.5 Stars

Lefkara Lace Embroidery
Androula Hadjiyiasemi
5.0 Stars

Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion
By Yvette Stanton
5.0 Stars

Letters & Monograms House of Malbranche
Van de Velde-Malbranche & Rosenthal
4.0 Stars

Long and Short Stitch Embroidery, A Collection of Flowers
Trish Burr
5.0 Stars

Mains et Merveilles
French Published Needlework Magazine
4.5 Stars

Making Hand-Sewn Boxes
By Jackie Woolsey
5.0 Stars

Mastering the Art of Embroidery
By Sophie Long
3.5 Stars

Metal Thread Embroidery
By Jane Lemon
3.5 Stars

The Midas Touch
By Alison Cole
5.0 Stars

More William Morris Appliqués
Michele Hill
4.0 Stars

Needlepainting: Fresh Ideas for Beginners
Trish Burr
5.0 Stars

The New Crewel
By Katherine Shaughnessy
3.0 Stars

Openwork Pattern Samplers
By Luzine Happel
5.0 Stars

Painting with a Needle
By Young Yang Chung
4.5 Stars

Pocketful of Posies
By Salley Mavor
5.0 Stars

Portuguese Whitework
Yvette Stanton
5.0 Stars

Redwork Circus
By Jenny McWhinney
5.0 Stars

Redoute’s Finest Flowers in Embroidery
Trish Burr
5.0 Stars

Ribbon Embroidery and Stumpwork
By Di van Niekerk, published by Search Press
5.0 Stars

Estense Embroidery or Ricamo Estense Italian EmbroideryR
by E. H. Spinelli
5.0 Stars

Right Handed Embroiderer’s Companion
by Yvette Stanton
5.0 Stars

Roses
By Di van Niekerk
5.0 Stars

Royal School of Needlework Embroidery Techniques
By Sally Saunders
4.5 Stars

RSN Bead Embroidery
Shelley Cox
5.0 Stars

RSN Blackwork Stitch Guide
Becky Hogg
5.0 Stars

RSN Canvaswork Stitch Guide
Rachel Doyle
3.5 Stars

RSN Crewelwork Stitch Guide
Jacqui McDonald
5.0 Stars

RSN Goldwork Stitch Guide
Helen McCook
4.0 Stars

RSN Handbook of Embroidery
Letitia Higgin
4.0 Stars

RSN Silk Shading Stitch Guide
Sarah Homfray
4.0 Stars

RSN Stumpwork Stitch Guide
Kate Sinton
4.5 Stars

RSN Whitework Stitch Guide
Lizzy Lansberry
5.0 Stars

Russian Elegance
Luisa Yefimova
5.0 Stars

Schwalm Whitework Embroidery
Christine Bishop
4.5 Stars

Secret Garden Coloring Book
Johanna Basford
5.0 Stars

Stitch Sampler
Lucinda Ganderton
4.0 Stars

Stumpwork Butterflies & Moths
By Jane Nicholas
5.0 Stars

Stumpwork Embroidery
Jane Nicholas
5.0 Stars

Stumpwork Flowers
By Sachiko Morimoto
5.0 Stars

Stumpwork: Medieval Flora
By Jane Nicholas
5.0 Stars

Stumpwork Tiles
Jane Nicholas
5.0 Stars

Tambour Work
By Yusai Fukuyama
5.0 Stars

Temari Techniques
Barbara Suess
5.0 Stars

Threads of Light
Glen Ketchum
5.0 Stars

Treasures of Ancient Yaroslavl
By Blazhevskaya Zubatenko
4.0 Stars

Twixt Art and Nature: English Embroidery
from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
5.0 Stars

Wessex Stitchery
By Gay Eaton
5.0 Stars

White Work
By Carter Houck (Dover Publications)
4.0 Stars

Women’s Work
By Pamela Parmal
5.0 Stars

The Wool Embroidery Collection
By Gail Rogers
5.0 Stars

Why Not Embroider Boxes
By Daphne Ashby and Jackie Woolsey
5.0 Stars

Free Books Online

• Blackwork Filling Collections
  from String-Or-Nothing
  Description: A collection of free downloadable (PDF) blackwork filling patterns. There are nearly 220 filling patterns here, in a collection of 4 PDFs.
• The Encyclopedia of Needlework
  by Therese Dillmont
  Made available by Project Gutenberg
  Description: A comprehensive book on needlework, covering a whole range of techniques. If it’s needlework, you’re bound to find a reference for it in this book!
• Jacobean Embroidery
  by Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam and A.F. Morris Hands
  Made available by Project Gutenberg
  Description: This is a wonderful book for anyone interested in crewel work, needlepainting, or, of course, Jacobean embroidery.
• Beeton’s Book of Needlework
  by Isabella Beeton
  Made available by Project Gutenberg (HTML format) and Antique Pattern Library in PDF form (links below)
  Description: This is a comprehensive needlework book. It contains instructions and pictures of different techniques, as well as patterns and some very nice monogram alphabets. Available in three files: Part I, Part II, Part III.
• Art in Needlework (PDF – 24MB)
  by Lewis F. Day
  Available on American Libraries Internet Archive
  Description: A comprehensive needlework resource, this one is made up of a good bit of text, but has some nice illustrations in it and some very good tips for the embroiderer.
• The Art of Modern Lacemaking
  Published by Butterick in 1891
  Made available by Project Gutenberg
  Description: Browsing through this book, you’ll find some great patterns and some techniques that can be used in surface embroidery as well as lace making.
• Assisi Embroidery
  by Therese Dillmont
  Made available by the On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics (hereafter, Digital Archive)
  Format: Two PDF Files: Part One & Part Two
  Description: Will interest anyone who likes counted thread techniques and historical embroidery. The first part of the work is where you’ll find the technique explained, and the second part is devoted primarily to color plates.
• Church Embroidery and Church Vestments
  by Lucy Vaughn Hayden Mackrille
  Made available by Digital Archives
  Description: This is an excellent resource for anyone interested in ecclesiastical. The separate links to the PDF files are listed in my brief blurb on the book.
• Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
  by Mrs. Archibald Christie
  Made available by Project Gutenberg
  This is a great book covering embroidery techniques, with plenty of pattern and design ideas. Fun to browse through!