Link Research by Mttlr (Kathy)

 

Online Books:

 

Tutorial on using free programs Gimpshop and Inkscape to clean up scanned images.

 

 

http://jfingalls.com/tut1.html

 

www.inkscape.org/

 

www.gimpshop.com/

 

 

Books:

 

http://jfingalls.com/scans.html   (254 pages of designs)

http://www.exceedinglycurious.com/ingalls/ingalls1/ingalls1.html (254 pages of designs)

 

Main link:

http://www.archive.org/index.php (thousands of books, movies, audio)

 

Embroidery book list  (25 Vintage Embroidery Books)

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Embroidery%22

 

Embroidery Stitches 1872

http://www.archive.org/details/embroiderystitch00wilkiala

 

A Book of Fancy Designs For Ornamenting Oriental Work

http://www.antiquepatterns.dreamhosters.com/HaehnlenFancy.pdf

 

http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/completelist.htm 

 

Over 2,270 high-resolution images scanned from more than 100 different old or rare books, with extracts!

http://www.fromoldbooks.org/

 

 

Beeton’s Book of Needlework by Mrs. Isabella Mary Beeton 1870

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15147 

 

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/DLDecArts/

http://jfingalls.com/

http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=hearth;idno=4221225

http://lacismuseum.org/

http://lacismusem.org/exhibit/freeform/

http://memorialhall.mass.edu/collection/index.html The Digital Collection is made up of over 2,000 items from Memorial Hall Museum

http://memorialhall.mass.edu/collection/itempage.jsp?itemid=9740      Crazy Quilt

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/outsidelink.html/http://n...du/urn-3:FHCL:424799

http://pds.harvard.edu:8080/pdx/servlet/pds?id=2574263&n=2&s=4&res=3  Lambert's Hand-Book of Needlework 1842 

 

http://www.aboutbritain.com/PaisleyMuseumAndArtGallery.htm

http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/

http://www.antiquequiltdating.com/

http://www.archive.org/details/artinneedleworkb00dayliala   Art in Needlework, a book about Embroidery 1900

http://www.asianart.com/textiles/textile.html

http://www.civilization.ca/arts/rugs/rugs00e.html (Hooked Rugs)

http://www.colour-experience.org/

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/xtopics.html  (search by topic)

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/this-month.html - books

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books.html 

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/weavedocs.html

 

(Ladys Manual of Fancy-Work -224 pages of instructions on hand embroidery )

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/pmm_fncy.pdf

 

(Lessons in Embroidery by Corticelli )

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/monographs/cort_embr.pdf

 

Therese de Dillmont. Alphabet de la Brodeuse otherwise known as The Embroiderer’s Alphabet. This is another classic and a real find, and cross stitchers will delight in the 151 pages of charts which are presented in 8 parts.

 

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/dm_chart_1.pdf

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/dm_chart_2.pdf

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/dm_chart_3.pdf

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/dm_chart_4.pdf

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/dm_chart_5.pdf

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/dm_chart_6.pdf

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/dm_chart_7.pdf

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/dm_chart_8.pdf

 

 

Lewis F. Day titled Ornamental Design, which was originally published in 1897. This is all 342 pages.

 

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/dlf_patt_1.pdf 

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/dlf_patt_2.pdf 

 

free ebook Jacobean Embroidery by Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam and A. F. Morris Hands for download.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18971

 

 

Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving by Grace Christie 1912

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20386

 

 

Therese De Dillmont’s Encyclopedia of Needlwork

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20776

 

Handbook of Embroidery by L. Higgin

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24964

 

http://www.emotionscards.com/museum/historyofpostcards.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27547074@N00/     Craigs Art Needlework Book

http://www.folkartmuseum.org/

http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Garden/7484/

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

www.macclesfield.silk.museum/Vistor/Section/Default.asp?idDepartment=0

www.marquise.de/en/themes/schnitte/nadel/index.shtml   (Patterns for needlework from 1859 to the 20's)

www.musee-impression.com/gb/musee/default.html

http://www.museumfortextiles.on.ca/

http://www.mylearning.org/jpage.asp?jpagid=427&journeyid=145

http://www.nationalheritagemusem.org/Default.aspx?tabi..&ProductID=30&page=0

http://www.nccil.org/  (National Center for Childrens Literature)

http://www.needleworkbooks.com/  (hard to find books)

http://www.powerhousemusem.com/electronicswatchbook/

http://www.sjquiltmusem.org/synopsys/index.html

http://www.statemusem.arizona.edu/index.shtml

http:///www.thinker.org/index.asp  (Fine Arts Musem of San Francisco)

http://www.vam.ac.uk/

 

 

Hummingbirds

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2007/03/gould-hummingbirds.html

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com     (Takes awhile to load, lots of pictures)

 

 

 

 

 

Rare Books on Calligraphy and Penmanship

ttp://www.iampeth.com/books.php

 

http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/haeckel/kunstformen/natur.html

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DLDecArts/DLDecArts-idx?id=DLDecArts.GramOrnJones

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DLDecArts/DLDecArts-idx?id=DLDecArts.JonesChinOrn

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?N

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/callover?key=N1%20%2eN55-N5633%20%2eN55

http://www.flickr.com/photos/96156254@N00/sets/72157602127895029/   (Melba Needlework Book)

http://swappons.oldiblog.com/?page=articles&rub=47847&nba=1   (Alphabet)

http://passe-tempsdeflo.over-blog.com/categorie-996455.html  (Alphabet)

http://www.handmade-adelaide-baby.com/free-cross-stitch-patterns.html

http://www.handmade-adelaide-baby.com/baby-cross-stitch-patterns.html

 

http://quiltersmuse.com/index_of_free_patterns.htm