Yvette Stanton's "The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion - A Step-by-Step Stitch Dictionary", published by Vetty Creations in 2010, 978-0-9757677-3-3, PB. My copy came from Ruth Kern Books in the U.S., priced $29. (U.S. Amazon for $23.) This new book from Australia may be helpful to those who are left-handed. This will go on the embroidery side of my library -- but some of the stitches are used in needle-made laces or lacy embroidery, and edgings for items to which you may attach lace, such as: Buttonhole fillings with return and fancy buttonhole fillings (needlelace) Buttonhole bars and buttonhole with picot (Venetian picots) Eyelets Four-sided stitch (pulled-work) Hedebo stitch Hem stitching Holbein stitch (blackwork which mimics lace applied to linen) Needlewoven bars Plaited braid stitch (the gold metal coils seen on Elizabethan jackets) Trellis stitch (a detached needlelace filling stitch that appears as silk flower petals on Elizabethan jackets) There are many other basic and fancy stitches. Some Arachnids have not had stitching lessons in school, and need a resource book. This is very well illustrated, in color. From author's website, I learned there is a right-handed version. And other books on whitework. _www.vettycreations.com.au_ (http://www.vettycreations.com.au) Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center
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