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Florentine Embroidery by Barbara Snook
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I know I have mentioned (more then once, more then twice) that Florentine Embroidery is the British & European name for Bargello Needlepoint.

This is a good basic Bargello book from Barbara Snook, the author of another Bargello book and a few needlepoint books.

This is a different book from Barbara Snook's other book with a similar title "The Craft of Florentine Embroidery".

Florentine Embroidery was published in 1967. It is a more advanced Bargello Needlepoint book, right from the start. This was a very Hard-To-Find book.

it does have a similar introduction listing the other names Florentine Embroidery has been known as. For the purposes of the review I am going to use it's modern name "Bargello Needlepoint" (or just Bargello).

The book has a few chapters on the history of Bargello. This is very interesting stuff which is not in the other book.

Then the book goes briefly into the basics of Bargello, techniques etc. The there are 32 pages of Bargello stitch patterns.

Then a very unusual chapter, Stitches that Link Easily with Bargello stitches. The only other book I know of that approaches this is Mira Silverstein's Bargello Plus (yes, I do list it here..of course).

Last is the chapter called "The Present Day Use of Florentine Embroidery" The designs here are similar to the ones she uses in "The Craft of Florentine Embroidery" going from easy to hardest.

The tone and instruction in this book seems to me to be leaning towards a more advanced stitcher but my Needlework Book Bibliography gives it a B for difficulty so I could be wrong (with A for easiest and D for hardest)

This is a good book but I do not recommend buying both of them. Either or. There are just a few color pictures in this book. This is typical of crafts books published back then.

This is a hardcover book published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1967. It has 160 pages.

Florentine Embroidery is in surprisingly good condition for a book this old. The pages are very faintly yellowed with age, there is no foxing. The spine is tight. The dust jacket is OK. The edges are worn and there is a rip, top left front cover which I have taped up.



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Geometric Designs in Needlepoint by Mary Jaene Edmonds
 
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