Title: An embroidery book with NO color photos?
Review: First of all, this is a reprint of a 1985 book, which should be clearly stated in its description. Secondly, have you ever seen an embroidery book without a single color photo? And with hardly any explanation of stitches? The entire book consists of black-and-white photos of different embroidery stitches in use in finished works. The book has scant text, most of it descriptions such as "Blocks of detached buttonhole worked in thick, thin, shiny and matt threads," which might be helpful if the photos were in color and you could see the difference. The book also has such "useful" suggestions as "Try working the stitch very tightly or in a loose manner."Jan Beaney is a master but this 20-year-old book is an anachronistic dinosaur compared to the newer books available, including Jan Beaney's own Stitch Magic and her series of booklets published by Gemini Press.I'm going to return this book, as I find it of no use at all.
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