Icelandic Patterns in Needlepoint: Over 40 Easy-to-Stitch Designs From the Land of Ice and Fire - Softcover

Sparey, Jona

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1787197778 ISBN 13: 9781787197770

Publisher: New Generation Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Over 40 stunning new needlepoint designs—inspired by traditional Icelandic patterns.

Borders and flowers, stars and geometrics, sampler motifs, repeating patterns, mythical symbols . . . and much more.

From the founder of Icelandic Tapestry School, as featured on Granada Television's This Morning programme.

About this title

About the Author

Travelling by trawler to Iceland on regular holiday visits to her relations, Jona Sparey became increasingly influenced throughout her childhood by the rich artistic heritage of this unique country. At school in London her most hated subject was embroidery, but when confronted by the beautiful exhibits at the National Museum, Reykjavik, she fell completely in love with the rich and colorful traditional designs. She began translating the photographs she had taken onto graph paper, painstakingly reproducing and adapting the original patterns and working them into stunning canvaswork embroideries. Students first attended Jona's classes in 1984, and her natural ability to teach, encourage, and entertain, as well as the kits she supplies and the many features on her work which have appeared in national magazines, have resulted in many hundreds of British embroiderers stitching thousands of Icelandic designs.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Generation Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787197778
• ISBN 13: 9781787197770
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 130