Jane Austen Embroidery: Regency Patterns Reimagined for Modern Stitchers (Dover Crafts: Embroidery & Needlepoint)

The media could not be loaded.  Do you need this? No. But do you neeeed this? Yes. Yes you do. It's beautiful and historical and encourages handicrafting (the admiration of or actual doing of), a lost art in this high tech time. Go back 200 years and savor the patterns, the symmetry, and the delicacy of Georgian period hand made art that's sometimes even useful, but even if it's not, it's beautiful and occasionally that matters more.

What a lovely embroidery book! Beautiful patterns and intricate designs. Super cool that these were the same patterns that women back in Jane Austin's time used for their embroidery. The book had a lot more to it than I expected. Pleasantly surprised!I hope you found this review helpful.

This book was very interesting with education and instruction.

This is a very nice book. It contains quite a bit of the periods history and has beautiful pic. The directions for the projects are more than adequate. The reason it only gets fore stars is that you have to have a copy machine or another method to size up the diagrams. They should have charged a little more and included a sheet of full sized templates

very nice, fully colored book. instructions are clear, and examples are cute.I might have wanted more variations, but overall I am very pleased. Great gift to anyone who embroiders!

Interesting scholarship in this project based book. Apparently the projects are from period magazines that Jane Austin was known to read. My wife is both a big Jane Austin fan and an avid cross stitcher and says this book is a perfect transition into this style of embroidery.

I bought this book for my daughter, who is an accomplished historical reproduction seamstress, and she was very excited about the beautiful patterns.

amazing book! really gives dimension to jane austen as a person, in addition to highlighting one of the most popular publications of the 18th and 19th centuries. not to metion, the embroidery designs are gorgeous and exciting to try. highly recommend!

This is a very nice book but if you thought it was all patterns from Jane Austen's time you may be disappointed..