North Shore Needles Arts Guild maintains a comprehensive reference library featuring information about the various styles of needlework. New publications are regularly sourced and added. Of course as the library expands with new material, books and magazines that are outdated are offered for sale to our members. Books can be signed out on a monthly basis – a great way to learn and perfect techniques or get inspiration for new projects.
Our Library is organized according to needleart categories. Here is a quick reference to our library tags:
000-020 Beading
021-099 Counted Stitch: includes blackwork, cross stitch, samplers,stitch guides & patterns.
100-199 Drawn Threads/pulled: includes cut work, darning, hardanger, lace, schwamn stitch guides and patterns
200-299 Embroidery/freeworked: includes crewel, gold work shading, silk ribbon, homework, thread painting stitch guides and patterns.
400 Machine Embroidery
500 Design and Color: includes design theory, surface design, color theory, dying, stamping, printing.
600 Projects: includes bags, boxes, cards, felting, home decorations, holidays, knitting, quilting.
700 Reference & Culture: includes artists, exhibitions, ethnic, history and rare books.
800 Loose Leaf Articles: includes museum pamphlets and patterns.
Our catalogued library is available on-line to our members. To access it just click here or type www.librarything.com/catalog/northshoreneedlearts into the address line of your internet screen.
You will be presented with a screen showing a listing of the books available that looks like this:
You may scroll down through the pages to find a specific book, magazine, or pamphlet, or use the search feature (circled item in the picture). You may search by title, author or subject matter using key words such as cross stitch, crewel, goldwork, etc. Our members may request the book at the next in-person meeting.
Additional Resources
We often come across various other resources that may be of use to our members and offer easy access links to those resources here. PLEASE NOTE: We are not affiliated with any of the resources listed below, nor do we receive any monetary benefit from providing these links. Just click the name and you will be taken directly there.
Mary Corbett’s Needle ‘n Thread – A website offering How To videos of various embroidery stitches
Pintangle Stitch Dictionary – As the name implies a dictionary of all the various embroidery stitches
DMC Embroidery Floss – a purveyor of embroidery floss
Button and Needlework Boutique – a purveyor of Appleton crewel yarns and needlework supplies
Appleton Wool Colour chart – a listing of the various colours of Appleton crewel yarns
Colour and Nature Video Class – https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=2323490&u=3612146&m=42943 compliments of Loren Edwards Forkner
Resources for Botanicals
- Botanical Illustration Course with the Eden Project by Rosie Martin and Mariel Thurstan
- Contemporary Botanical Illustration with the Eden Project by Rosie Martin and Mariel Thurstan (companion book)
- The Art of Botanical Painting by the Smithsonian
- Weeds of the Pacific Northwest by Mark Turner and Sami Gray
- Bloom by Ron Van Dongen
- Botany for the Artist by Sarah Simblet
- Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolour by Claudia Nice
- A Redouté Treasury – 468 Watercolours from Les Liliacées
- The Country Diary of An Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden
- Janet Marsh’s Nature Diary
- Weeds by Howard Bjornson
- Nature Diary of A Quiet Pedestrian by Philip Croft
- The Book of Plants by Basilius Besler
- Flowers of the World by Frances Perry
- Embroidery Atelier – Visions & Passions by Sue Rangeley
- Botanical Portraits With Coloured Pencil by Ann Swan
- Still: The Art of Noticing by Mary Jo Hoffman