This book is beautiful. The layout, the pictures, the inspirations. It is divided in three parts for the different colours red, white and blue. This is traditional french embroidery explained and simplified. Loads of small project, beautiful little craft gems. The instructions are clear and easy to follow and the presentation helps along. The only minus point I would have is that some of the motifs are just plain or inappropriate, like Father Christmas for example. There is nothing french heirloom about that.
So when I bought this book (online, therefore I didn't really know what to expect) I was very much looking forward to some traditional embroidery patterns and motifs. It's not quite like that but really the colour combinations and the play with plain is most beautiful. I think I will use this as an inspiration and will work it out with mixed media like print and stitch.
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