This book provides everything you need to know to make figures in stumpwork. There are detailed, step-by-step instructions on embroidery and needlelace techniques, and the three easy-to-follow projects allow you to create your own figurative stumpwork embroideries.

Figures have been an important feature of stumpwork for hundreds of years, and in this book Kay and Michael Dennis explain in detail how to make all of the components of a figure – limbs, head, face, hair, body shape and clothes – as well as provide clear, step-by-step instructions for all of the needlelace and embroidery techniques you need to make clothing and to add details and embellishments to your designs. Numerous full-colour diagrams and photographs are included throughout the book, and the three projects allow even those with no experience of stumpwork to create beautiful embroideries of their own.