FA: 47.00 Creative Canvas Embroidery

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Creative Canvas Embroidery
by Bucky King

Hard Cover, with jacket, Hearthside Press, 1972.
Jacket damaged.

Here is a complete, easy-to-follow guide for the beginner producing her first canvas as well
as the advanced embroiderer eager to learn more about an ancient—and
newly popular--craft. It includes the basic techniques; preparing the canvas; 50 stitches
(all clearly illustrated); advice on threads, needles, colors, stitch selec tion,
mounting, blocking, and finishing details, even correcting mistakes.

But the book goes far beyond the mechanical aspects of this delightful and rewarding hobby.
A large section entitled "Color and Design on Canvas" urges the reader to
originate her own work. It gives the principles of design, including making color schemes,
putting the design on canvas, and designing for home, personal and ecclesiastical
adornment. The reader who wishes to make a profession of, or to exhibit, embroid erv will be
informed and inspired by sections on 'Procedures for Teachers and
Suppliers," and "Embroidery for Use and Exhihition."

The various applications for canvas work are shown in magnificent photographs of chair
seats, wall hangings, purses, picture frames, wallets, pillowvs, altar kneelers,
panels, rugs . . . all de signed by foremost contemporary craftsmen.

Creative Canvas Embroidery is imaginatively conceived and handsomely executed--a must for
every needleworker and librarian.

About the Author

Bucky King studied embroidery as a child with the Ursuline Order of Nuns, attended Win
chester Thurston School, Edgewood Park and Chatham College. For the past
nine years she has operated her own studio, Embroideries Un limited, and teaches canvas and
crewel embroid erv at the Arts and Crafts Center in Pittsburgh. Mrs. King is
a member of the Craftsman's Guild of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Chapter, the board of
Pittsburgh Plan for Art, and the board of the Embroiderer's Guild, American Branch.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in revieving an exhibition of her embroidery, has said, "Bucky
King's approach to embroidery and stitching is very much like that of a
contemporary painter. having mastered all the skills of this ancient art, she feels entitled
to change the rules when she likes, to mix her mediums and to create her own
modern designs rather than feel obliged to work the traditional ones. Her handsome show now
at the Pittsburgh Plan for Art explains why this artist-craftsman has gained a
national reputation in her field.

"It is quite obvious, even to an untrained eve, that each type of embroidery has its own
rules, restrictions, and possibilities; as do the various media of painting and
sculpture. Bucky King knows how to use each to its best advantage, especially when exploring
the great variety of surface textures.

"It is this same extra dimension which charac terized the designs of Lurcat, Matisse,
Braque, and Leger in the contemporary revival of Ameri can tapestries; and which
appealed to the late Mariska Karaca in her American embroideries.