Herbs and medicinal plants in cross-stitch from the Danish Handcraft Guild

ISBN: 0442206771

Author: Gerda Bengtsson

Condition: Used

Presented here are twenty-six exquisite patterns for cross-stitch -- all of herbs and medicinal plants -- by the internationally known textile designer Gerda Bengtsson of the Danish Handicraft Guild. Each design is reproduced in color from the original cross-stitch work, and again in diagram form so that you can recreate these lovely designs stitch-by-stitch and color-by-color. Also included is everything you need to know to complete the design: method of working, materials, instructions, and examples of finished designs, which are suitable for framing, pillows, tablecloths, place mats, napkins, and more.

The flowers from Gerda Bengtsson's 1975 and 1977 calendars, now sold out, have been collected together in this little book. The continued interest in these motifs has been so great that the Danish Handicraft Guild has decided to reissue them.

Quite apart from Gerda Bengtsson's extremely decorative interpretation of the various herbs, the motifs contain an element of surprise -- the surprise that lies in the discovery that, behind the names usually associated with the dried powders or corns in small bags and jars to be found in the kitchen or medicine cabinets, there are some beautiful, flowering plants.