Cross Stitch Antique Style Samplers

Hope this wonderful book can be delivered quickly.

I confess that I bought this book because fascinated by the frame of multicolored flowers that appears on the cover. Then, leafing through it, I realized that actually a good book, it has some sampler old yellowed by the centuries, from which to take inspiration for the setting, others looking more current, of which I appreciate very much the Greek that surround them, often formed by flowers and leaves, or Greek floral sometimes more stylized, chasing each other around the entire perimeter of the sampler, and it can also be useful to outline other embroidery, not necessarily presented sampler. The sampler always exert a particular fascination, are paintings full of drawings, which are assembled in one place, create magnificent color effects, and often tell a story that everyone can interpret freely be inspired by the embroidered designs; or these samplers are only "un'imparaticcio", ie an exercise made by young hands, to become expert embroiderers, sometimes even are simply the representation of beautiful alphabets, classic style, embroidered in red, as some in this book . Beautiful photos of framed paintings, all color schemes, very pretty layout because of the text appearing here and little doodles that show in some detail of the submitted embroidery. The only fault that everything written in English! I would love to be able to read all that this book tells ... Cinzia.

Beautiful book in English, gorgeous patterns and many well made. Fabulous!

It 'really a collector's item, beautiful designs and patterns