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Learning Resources

Here are resources that I have found helpful. Learning from someone sitting beside you is always best, but sometimes that is not possible. With today’s technologies, you can get a good start working alone.

Trish Burr

Trish has written a series of books which form an excellent introduction to thread painting. She teaches via the Web and in person in South Africa and internationally. Her beautiful projects and vivid colours pull you along. Through them, you just can’t help but get better at stitching and picking colours.  And they you can fly on your own.

Royal School of Needlework

Located outside London, the RSN,  teaches the “correct” way to stitch. It’s most valuable attributes are the encouraging teachers and the fabulous collection of embroidery that this institution has collected or produced over decades. It now offers workshops outside the United Kingdom.

Stitch Magazine
Published by the UK Embroiderers’ Guild,  this publication gives needlework a contemporary twist.

Country Bumpkin Books
Country Bumpkin, publishes a series introducing various embroidery techniques, including a primer on needle painting, also called  thread painting. Their magazine, Inspirations, offers  lots of interesting projects too.

YouTube

Look around this site and you will find almost anything, including films on how to do the long-short stitch, which is the basis of needle painting.

Mary Courbet’s Needle and Thread
 This website is a good resource for embroiderers period.