Title: Successful, enjoyable embroidery approaches!
Product review: Children, whether at school or at home, enjoy embroidery just so long as the work makes a quick effect. Anne Butler (who also writes excellent textile books as Anne Morrell) here shows that the laborious preliminaries of design are unnecessary; that a child properly directed can work freely and creatively at once. Aimed at children aged up to thirteen, the book deals with fabrics, threads, stitches, embroidery pictures, the use of materials, and three-dimensional embroidery. The quality of the examples reproduced shows how successful this approach can be. Teachers and parents will value the book as a source of stimulus and guidance towards the production of comparable embroidery by the children for whom they are responsible. At the time of writing, Anne Butler, now Professor Morrell, was Head of the Embroidery School at Manchester College of Art and Design. Her pioneering work in this field is unmatched.
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