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NewNeedlepoint.com has been open almost 2 years now. There have been many changes as I find my “spot” in the on-line needlepoint community.

NewNeedlepoint.com specializes in books, both new and used books. The needlepoint and Bargello Needlepoint book categories are extensive. Many of the books here are rare, some are quite rare and all have reviews I have written.

There are pictures of all the books. I find a picture of the cover sometimes tells you more about a book then any review can.

All the used/rare books have pictures of the book cover or dust jacket plus a picture of the inside pages so you can see the condition of the books for yourself.

I know it is a given in the used book market that you keep the dust jacket, no matter the condition but I find many good or very good condition books inside terrible and dirty dust jackets. In that case I remove them, no matter what the market “says”.

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I will continue to sell selected needlepoint canvases & kits including the work of Patt & Lee Designs, Laurel Burch and more. The Patt & Lee collection of Scrap Thread canvases are a wonderful way to use your extra yarn and thread stash.

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The Ups & Downs of Needlepoint by Fannie Highsmith
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This is a very rare, almost unknown book by Fannie Hillsmith. I think I have bought every copy out there, this is the 3rd. The other 2 sold very quickly. Each time I replace this book it costs me more, go figure.

As far as I can tell, this is her only book on Needlepoint. It was published in South Brunswick and New York by A.S. Barnes & Co. and in London by Thomas Yoseloff LTD in 1976.

The book appears to be a "soup-to-nuts" needlepoint reference. The first chapter is titled "What Is A Stitch? and goes for 56 chapters more including a chaopters on the wools used, a bibiography and an index.

This really does look like an interesting book by someone who knows of what she speaks (rare enough these days).

The book has very few full-color pictures but it does have many, many B&W charts and drawings, each thing she talks about is well illustrated. There is even a chapter on Left-Handed Needlepoint.

An interesting book that I suspect is ahead of it's time, plus I love the title. "The Ups & Downs of Needlepoint" indeed.

There is a great section in here on the basics of doing circles in needlepoint. We all know how difficult your first few stitched circles can be.

Fannie Hillsmith was born in Boston and at the time this book was printed, 1976, lived in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. She was trained at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, The Art Students League and Atelier 17. She is a painter, a jewelry designer, a printmaker, as well as a needlepoint designer and teacher.

The Ups & Downs of Needlepoint is in good condition. The dust jacket is quite worn. A careful previous owner has put the dust jacket inside a clear plastic cover, to prevent any further damage. I have left it that way.

The book inside is in very good condition, the pages are slightly yellowed by age but that is to be expected.

This is an unusual and hard-to-find book.



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