Contrast in Crewel Embroidery book. Eight modern designs for crewel embroidery: four doodle designs to help readers learn new crewel stitches; and four Day / Night designs, each pattern of which has been embroidered two times - on the off-white fabric and upon some dark background. There are some stories related, as usual. Lots of new, intricate jacobean embroidery techniques, all of them carefully explained in step-by-step Stitch Guide, which includes over a hundred stitches. A book both for beginners in crewel work and for experienced embroiderers