Cross Stitch Nostalgia: French Motifs & Patterns Japanese Craft Book

Release date: ‎ 2018/3/7
Language ‏ : ‎ Japanese
Book: ‎ 94 pages

★That famous book by Okeisha has been reprinted with new designs!

France is the home of cross stitch.
As if to suggest this, the DMC Mulhouse Museum, which is now closed, has
A number of historical cross stitch designs have been carefully preserved.
It was made in the 30's and 50's.
Beautifully embroidered sample.
Although the original painting, which was painted in pastel and gouache (watercolor), is a little faded,
It actually makes me feel the age.
Actually, I wish I could introduce these items in their entirety, but these are items that are kept out of the public domain.
The contents of the original have been carefully reproduced one by one by veteran Japanese embroidery teachers.
This book is an easy-to-understand introduction to readers, including how to embroidery.
A boy enjoys fishing on his day off, a girl wears a puffy cloche-shaped skirt and watches over her catch...
Nostalgic scenes from France in the 1930s are embroidered (p15).
Her cowboy with a pistol in each hand and a sports car that looks like it's about to start running are symbols of the great nation of America (p34-35).
This is highly recordable embroidery that tells the story of the times.
In addition, alphabet embroidery, monochrome embroidery using only black thread, ``Snow White'' embroidery that tells the story,
From one-point embroidery of dogs, birds, and flowers to simple continuous pattern embroidery,
All of them are cute and easy to stitch, and are examples of authentic cross stitch.
The highlight of this book is the embroidery of women from various countries wearing ethnic costumes (p6-11).
This embroidery, which depicts every detail of the costume, was created by children's book author Jacqueline Verly (1936-1938).
Perhaps due to the timing, this embroidery, which had never been shown in Japan, is incredibly adorable.

★This book has added 16 pages to the previous edition of "Cross Stitch Nostalgia" (published by Okeisha in 2005).
More than 20 new designs and new technique explanations have been added.

[Design production] Jacqueline Verly, Erma York, Kantesky, Montandon, etc.
[Work design] Mayumi Katsuya (designer)
[Embroidery production] Ayako Otsuka (embroidery artist), Sukuko Nishi, Yasuko Ito, Misako Okumura, Mariko Yoshikawa (both embroidery artists)
[English translation] Mayumi Sugimoto
[Text] Yoko Yoshimura (Japanese-French culture researcher)
[Technical supervision] Nishisukuko, Ito Yasuko

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