Weldon's Practical Needlework: Deluxe Edition - Hardcover

Interweave

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 162033741X ISBN 13: 9781620337417

Publisher: Krause Craft, 2014

Synopsis

Weldon's Practical Needlework was a popular Victorian magazine that offered knit, crochet, patchwork, and a variety of other needlework patterns for "useful articles". Published in England roughly between 1885 and 1915, it offered women of the growing middle class technical instructions and projects.  Whether sturdy items of daily wear such as stockings, "a gentleman's waistcoat" or lady's vest, or more fanciful lacework and "d'oyleys", or truly odd items such as knitted tennis ball covers and knee-warmers, such projects allowed women to fill their leisure hours with useful work.  Originally publishing small pamphlets 12 times a year, Weldon's eventually collected these into larger volumes.  The popular leaflets could found in many households, often surrounded by the very type of needlework they contained.
 
Now available as an extravagant boxed set, Weldon's Practical Needlework: Deluxe Edition is a facsimile edition of the first 6 volumes of the series. In addition to knit and crochet, each volume contains a variety of decorative needlework: crewel, appliqué, cross-stitch, macramé, smocking, bead netting, and other lesser-known techniques.
 
This box set serves as a historical document and a collector's item. Open a window to another time and place with Weldon's Practical Needlework: Deluxe Edition as you explore fashion, domestic life, and the history of needlework.

About this title

About the Author

Interweave is one of the nation's largest publishers of craft books, magazines, and video content. Founded in 1975 by Linda Ligon, Interweave specializes in the areas of knitting, crochet, quilting, sewing, mixed media, beading, jewelry, spinning, weaving, and fiber arts. Interweave ranks as one of the top craft publishers in the United States and its books, magazines, and videos are available worldwide.

Review

Essence of the Victorians
 
This is the Victorians in all their skilled and quirky glory. From "clox" for socks, and hose for ladies, gentlemen, and shepherds, strange yet functional household textiles, exquisitely fine laces, undergarments only a Victorian could imagine (steampunkers, eat your hearts out), to receptacles and reticules and other apocrypha, this gorgeously bound set will inspire not only crafting but conversation for years to come. It's a must-have for any lover of textiles!

-- Anita Osterhaug, editor of Handwoven and history buff

Edition details

• Publisher: Krause Craft
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 162033741X
• ISBN 13: 9781620337417
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 912