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Bloomsbury Needlepoint by Melinda Coss

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The sub-title of this book is " From The Tapestries at Charleston Farmhouse with Charts of Designs by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell & Roger Fry".

This is a quote from the dust jacket. "During the 1st World War the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of influential British Writers, Artists and Designers, went to stay at Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex. There they put their aesthetic into practice by painting on walls and furniture, designing fabrics and and producing an abundance of dramatic needlework"

Melinda Coss is the first person to get permission to use these works to chart Needlepoint Patterns. She has worked hard to show the original vibrant and earthy colors of the yarns chosen by these artists for these superb paintings in needlepoint (a paraphrase, again from the dust jacket).

This book has, as well as the charts and directions for these fine needlepoints, wonderful full color pictures of the Charleston Farmhouse that Vanessa Bell set up as a haven for her friends as well as her sister, Virginia Woolf. The introduction gives a brief history of the farmhouse and it's residents.

Each project has a full color picture of the finished needlepoint as well as a full color chart often with chart details in close-up, color numbers listed and directions. The yarns used are Appleton, Paterna and Paternayan Wools. British needlepoint designers rarely work with anything but wools.

The Bloomsbury Needlepoint book has 6 chapters, each representing a room in the house or the workshop. Each room has 2 or 3 needlepoint patterns in it.

There are the usual few pages of general instructions and techniques in the back of the book.

These designs are lovely, very much in the spirt of The Mission Arts & Crafts movement.

This book was published by Bulfinch Press in Boston, Toronto & London in 1992. This is a very hard-to-find, out of print book few people know about.

Bloomsbury Needlepoint, a hard cover book, is in excellent condition. Only some wear at the edges of the dust jacket keep it from being *gift quality*. The book inside and the pages are in great condition, as you can see.

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