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- 84 pages
- Paperback
- 21cm x 29cm
- Instructions for over 100 individual designs including the recent Lengberg finds
- Illustrated throughout with photographs, diagrams and step-by-step drawings
- Black and white with some colour photographs and pictures
- Published in 2013
Gina Barrett's inspiring workshop manual offers clear and concise step-by-step instructions through full-colour photos, line drawings and text that allow the reader to create many styles of buttons including thread-wrapped, wheel, needle-worked, knotted and embroidered buttons. Working with beads and spangles, needleweaving and lace techniques are discussed, as are tools, materials, useful stitches and finishing.
Suggestions for many more variations are also given, with photographs and drawings for inspiration, enabling the reader to create a huge range of unique buttons. With a foreword by the Tudor Tailor's own Ninya Mikhaila and a short contribution by Beatrix Nutz, MA.