Russian and Other Slavic Embroidery Designs

This book contains directions for fifteen easy and attractive projects based on traditional designs from Russia and other Eastern European countries - Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Hungary, and Yugoslavia. Some are worked in free-form embroidery (crewel) and others in cross stitch, a particularly popular Russian technique. All are in bright colors, with red predominating. The articles include table linens and hangings, blouses, aprons, and other clothing. Entirely appropriate for present-day uses, these pieces preserve much of the type of embroidery once used on the folk costumes, now rarely made or worn. Sandra Ley is of Russian descent and well-versed in the traditional needlework of the Slavic countries. In preparing this book she was able to study old embroideries belonging to relatives and friends as well as examples in American museum collect6ions.