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Assisi Embroideries
Assisi Embroideries
Book · 39 pages
A D.M.C Library pattern book of Assisi embroidery, a counted-thread linen work with outlined reserved motifs (mainly animals and birds) on a cross-stitch filled background. The introduction covers the origin of Assisi embroidery, drawn from medieval church embroideries and carvings at San Rufino and San Pietro. The text gives instructions for outline running stitches, background cross stitch and edge ornaments, with thread and colour recommendations and ideas for using the patterns on table linen, cushions and other items. Twenty-four plates show 68 numbered models: small motifs, narrow and wide borders with corners, and large squares. Closing pages give care and cleaning instructions for coloured embroidery and D.M.C thread and publication lists.
Broderies Yougoslaves 2me Series [Yugoslavian Embroideries, 2nd Series]
Broderies Yougoslaves 2me Series [Yugoslavian Embroideries, 2nd Series]
Book · 46 pages · French
Second series of Yugoslavian embroidery patterns published by Th. de Dillmont's DMC library, with 83 mostly polychrome models on 20 plates. The designs are copied from originals in Bosnia, Herzegovina, Dalmatia and Montenegro, mainly borders for women's shirts and shawls. An introduction describes regional styles and stitches, and the plate-by-plate instructions give fabric, DMC thread numbers and colours, and stitches (cross stitch, outline stitch, Slavic bias stitch, darning stitch, laid stitch, Bosnian stitch). The book has colour plates of the models, stitch figures, and squared line drawings for enlarging models 64-67, followed by DMC product and publication lists.
Le Crochet 6mw Série [Crochet, 6th Series]
Le Crochet 6mw Série [Crochet, 6th Series]
Book · 64 pages · French
Sixth series of Th. de Dillmont's Le Crochet in the Bibliothèque D·M·C, a small-format pattern book of narrow crochet laces (dentelles) and insertions (entre-deux) for fine linen and table linen. After an introduction and general notes, it gives row-by-row written instructions in French for models 1 to 60, keyed to eight plates of photographs. Plates 1 to 5 are worked freehand with D·M·C No. 70 lace thread; plates 6 to 8 are worked directly into the fabric edge, with corner formation instructions. The back pages list D·M·C thread products and other titles in the Bibliothèque D·M·C series.
Cross Stitch
Cross Stitch
Book · 28 pages
A D·M·C Library pattern album, Cross Stitch, 3rd Series, issued by Editions Th. de Dillmont (Mulhouse). It presents about twenty colour charts of cross-stitch borders (wide and narrow), corners, powderings and grounds, plus three plates of children's subjects. The short introduction recommends D·M·C threads (pearl cotton, embroidery twist, stranded cotton, Persian silk) and says designs can be worked in one to four colours. The back pages list D·M·C thread products and other D·M·C Library titles.
Czecho-Slovakian Embroideries
Czecho-Slovakian Embroideries
Book · 51 pages
A DMC Library album of 67 Czecho-Slovakian (Bohemian, Moravian and Slovak) embroidery models on twenty plates, issued by Th. de Dillmont's Mulhouse house. The text gives directions for each border, naming the linen, DMC thread types, sizes and colour numbers, and the stitches used (cross, plaited Slav, stroke, flat, stem and button-hole stitches, openwork rivières, raised satin stitch and French knots). It includes diagrams for working the rivières, instructions for tracing, pouncing and enlarging patterns, and squared-ground patterns for plates IX to XX, followed by colour plates. The back pages list DMC threads and other DMC Library titles.
La Dentelle Renaissance [Renaissance Lace]
La Dentelle Renaissance [Renaissance Lace]
Book · 108 pages · French
A French-language instruction manual in the D.M.C. Library series on Renaissance lace (also called Irish lace or Luxeuil lace), made by sewing lace braids (lacets) onto a pattern and joining them with needle-made bars (brides) and filling stitches. It covers the history of the technique, materials, preparing the pattern, basting and gathering the braids, and the many bride types, picots, wheels (spiders), teeth, entre-deux, numbered lace filling stitches, fillings for leaves and circles, and grounds (fonds). It also covers lace on tulle, mounting lace in fabric, and washing and finishing. The volume has many photographic illustrations of stitch samples, full-page plates of finished lace, and cut-out patterns for the ten plates, followed by a list of D.M.C. publications and products.
Dentelle Ténériffe [ Teneriffe Lace]
Dentelle Ténériffe [ Teneriffe Lace]
Book · 41 pages · French
A French-language D·M·C Library album on Teneriffe lace (dentelle Ténériffe), a South American-style lace worked on rubber or metal forms with radiating stretched threads. The text covers tools, needles, threads, how to stretch the thread network, knotting rows, wheels, darning-stitch ornaments, bar twisting, and removing finished work. It also describes an imitation made with ready-made Teneriffe braid, using crochet and basting onto patterns. Twenty plates of photographed circular and other lace motifs follow, and the volume ends with D·M·C thread and publication lists.
Les Dentelles aux Fuseaux 1re Série [Bobbin Laces, First Series ]
Les Dentelles aux Fuseaux 1re Série [Bobbin Laces, First Series ]
Book · 225 pages · French · weaving drafts
A French-language instruction manual on torchon bobbin lace from the DMC Library (Bibliothèque D·M·C), First Series, issued by Thérèse de Dillmont. It covers tools (pillow, bobbins, winder, pricking patterns, pins), basic stitches and thread manipulations, then gives step-by-step directions for grounds and stitches such as point de filet, point de toile, point torchon, point de Dieppe, point à la vierge and point d'esprit. Numbered sections describe insertions (entre-deux), edgings, borders and braids with thread recommendations, followed by photographic plates, pricking patterns (patrons) and a list of other DMC publications.
Les Dentelles aux Fuseaux IIme Série [Bobbin Laces, Second Series]
Les Dentelles aux Fuseaux IIme Série [Bobbin Laces, Second Series]
Book · 142 pages · French
A Bibliothèque D·M·C album by Thérèse de Dillmont, second series on bobbin lace, concentrating on laces whose designs are formed by worked tapes (lacets) in straight or serpentine lines. It opens with a short history of the technique and general instructions on bobbin movements, then gives pair-by-pair directions for many straight and serpentine tapes, narrow laces, point d'esprit leaves, plaited bars with picots, and methods of joining tapes. The second half has photographed model plates (laces and insertions) with notes on materials and DMC thread numbers, followed by full-size pricking patterns and an advertisement for other DMC albums.
Les Dentelles à l'Aiguille (Première Série) [Needle-Made Laces (First Series)]
Les Dentelles à l'Aiguille (Première Série) [Needle-Made Laces (First Series)]
Book · 33 pages · French
An album from the D.M.C Library on needle-made lace (first series), published by Th. de Dillmont in Mulhouse. A short introduction on the history of needle lace is followed by instructions: preparing the pattern on black paper, tracing, filling stitches, bars (brides), picots, edging, joining sections and insetting lace into fabric. It also covers Reticella imitations made with woven tapes (lacets). Fifteen plates show numbered Reticella and Venetian-style lace squares, rounds, edgings and insertions (Figures 23-80), with notes on how to use them for pillows, sachets, reticules, aprons and a blouse. The scan ends with DMC thread advertisements and a list of other D.M.C Library titles.
The Embroiderer's Alphabet
The Embroiderer's Alphabet
Book · 143 pages · weaving drafts
A D.M.C Library album of counted-thread embroidery charts by Th. de Dillmont, published by Dollfus-Mieg & Cie of Mulhouse. It consists of numbered plates of cross-stitch alphabets (script, Gothic, upper and lower case), numerals, monograms, borders, dates, butterflies and other ornaments, followed by tracing sheets for white embroidery monograms. The back of the book carries advertisements for other D.M.C albums (French net work, crochet, cross stitch, Teneriffe lace, macramé) and tables of D.M.C cotton, linen and silk thread sizes.
Le Filet Brodé [Embroidered Filet]
Le Filet Brodé [Embroidered Filet]
Book · 60 pages · French
A French-language DMC Library album by Th. de Dillmont on embroidered filet (embroidery on knotted or machine-made net). It explains the tools (netting shuttle, mesh gauges), thread choices, how to make netting and square, band and frame shapes, and how to mount the net in a frame. It then covers filling and darning stitches such as point de toile, point d'esprit, point de reprise, wheels, stars, point de Venise, point coupé, background fills and languette borders. The second half has 20 plates of filet embroidery patterns and charts, followed by a DMC publications list, a product list and a thread-size table.
Filet-Guipure
Filet-Guipure
Book · 35 pages
An English-language DMC Library album on filet-guipure, a form of net embroidery in which the main motifs are worked in close stitches and the grounds in varied lace stitches. It has an introduction, directions on materials, thread sizes for different mesh sizes, stitching, stiffening and uses, and 17 figures showing stitches such as Russian stitch, loop stitches, wheels, triangles and stars in straight stitch. Twenty plates present 68 numbered patterns of squares, foundations, insertions and edgings. The last pages carry DMC product advertisements and a list of other DMC Library publications.
Le Filet-Richelieu [Richelieu Filet Embroidery]
Le Filet-Richelieu [Richelieu Filet Embroidery]
Book · 54 pages · French
A DMC Bibliotheque album by Th. de Dillmont on Richelieu filet, a French embroidery on knotted or machine-made net traditionally used for church linens. The short text covers the tools and thread for making knotted net (netting shuttle, mould, hand positions), how to make square and straight net and corners, and the embroidery stitches worked on it (toile or cloth stitch, reprise or darning stitch, languette). Most of the volume is plates of numbered designs (about 170 patterns of borders, squares and motifs) in white on black. It ends with a DMC thread and colour table and advertisements for other DMC albums.
Les Jours sur Toile IIme Série [Drawn Thread Work Second Series]
Les Jours sur Toile IIme Série [Drawn Thread Work Second Series]
Book · 88 pages · French
Second series of D·M·C pattern album on drawn thread work (jours sur toile), published by the Editions Th. de Dillmont, Mulhouse. It gives general notes on materials and stitches (square-stitch grounds, bundled bars, darning stitch, point d'esprit, machine work) and then plate-by-plate instructions for about 70 numbered figures: bands (rivières), borders with corners, grounds, Reticella-style and Tenerife-like squares, and counted-thread squares resembling filet embroidery. The final plates show finished articles such as an altar cloth, table mats, collars, scarves, bags and cushions, with thread types, sizes and colours specified. The back matter lists other D·M·C library titles and D·M·C thread products and size tables.
Les Jours sur Toile Ire Série [Drawn Thread Work First Series]
Les Jours sur Toile Ire Série [Drawn Thread Work First Series]
Book · 107 pages · French
A D.M.C Library instruction book on drawn-thread work (jours sur toile), first series, in French. It explains materials and threads, then progresses from hems and rivières (drawn-thread bands) through knotted and crossed bundles, darning-stitch bars, and cut-work (point coupé) grounds to spiders, rosettes, Hardanger, Reticella-style, Mexican and Danish Hedebo borders. Numbered figures illustrate stitches and samples, and Planches I to XX are photographic plates with worked instructions giving thread counts and D.M.C thread numbers. The book ends with a list of D.M.C Library publications and a page of D.M.C thread labels.
Kreuzstich Neue Muster 1. Serie [New Designs in Cross Stitch. Series 1]
Kreuzstich Neue Muster 1. Serie [New Designs in Cross Stitch. Series 1]
Book · 33 pages · German
A German-language pattern album from the D.M.C library, with 24 colored plates (Tafeln) of counted cross-stitch designs: borders, repeating all-over patterns, motifs such as flowers, tulips, birds, bees and children, and a plate of monograms. Each chart is drawn on a numbered grid (0-170 by 0-100) in two or three colors. The back pages advertise D.M.C threads and list the other titles in the Bibliothek D.M.C series.
Macramé
Macramé
Book · 49 pages
A DMC Library album on macramé by Th. de Dillmont, offering an introduction and instructions on materials, the cushion and accessories, and how to form the knots. Line drawings show flat knots, picots, shell knots, bars, collecting knots and joining methods. Written directions follow for fringes, grounds, insertions and gimps (including gimps worked with macramé bobbins and a gimp with a corner). The second half is a series of photographic plates with numbered samples of knotted bands and fringes, ending with a list of DMC threads.
Motifs pour Broderies 1st Série [Embroidery Motifs, 1st Series]
Motifs pour Broderies 1st Série [Embroidery Motifs, 1st Series]
Book · 113 pages · French
A French-language DMC Library album of embroidery and needlepoint motifs by Th. de Dillmont, first series, with an introduction and notes on canvases and fabrics. Its numbered color plates show grounds, borders, corners and scattered-motif patterns (semis) worked in cross stitch, half cross stitch, Hungarian stitch, satin-type passé embroidery and similar stitches. Each plate has a caption naming the stitch, fabric, DMC thread and color numbers, with variants and suggested uses. Gridded tracing patterns (calques) for enlarging and transferring designs follow, with instructions for their use. The back matter has a specimen page from the Encyclopédie des Ouvrages de Dames, advertisements for other DMC library albums, and DMC thread and silk product lists.
Motivi per Ricami (3a Serie) [Embroidery Motifs (3rd Series)]
Motivi per Ricami (3a Serie) [Embroidery Motifs (3rd Series)]
Book · 29 pages · Italian
Italian-language edition of the third series of DMC's "Motivi per Ricami" (Embroidery Motifs), published by Th. de Dillmont in Mulhouse. It opens with an introduction on suitable fabrics (counted-thread linens and canvas) and threads (DMC perlé cotton, mouliné, linen and Persian silk). It then presents 20 color plates of counted-thread cross-stitch backgrounds (fondi) and borders (bordi) in stylized floral and geometric designs. The front and back matter include advertisements for DMC threads and lists of other DMC Library albums with prices.
Motivi per Ricami (Serie IV) [Embroidery Motifs (Series IV)]
Motivi per Ricami (Serie IV) [Embroidery Motifs (Series IV)]
Book · 29 pages · Italian
Italian-language edition of the fourth series of D.M.C's 'Motivi per ricami', a pattern album of counted-thread embroidery designs. A short introduction describes the 50 original motifs for borders and grounds and recommends D.M.C threads (pearl cotton, embroidery cotton, linen, Persian silk) for different fabric weights. Twenty colour plates follow, showing cross-stitch style floral and geometric motifs, followed by a D.M.C product list and a catalogue of other Biblioteca D.M.C publications.
Needle-Made Laces (1st Series)
Needle-Made Laces (1st Series)
Book · 69 pages
A D.M.C Library album of needle-made lace edited by Th. de Dillmont, first series. It opens with an introduction on the history of needle lace and a short treatise on tracing patterns, lace stitches, bars and picots, then gives 15 plates of photographed models: Reticella squares and round motifs, imitation Reticella made with braids, Venetian point laces, and small articles trimmed with lace. Thread-size tables list the D.M.C threads to use for each plate, and white-on-black tracing patterns at the back can be detached for working. It ends with D.M.C product and publication advertisements.
Point de Croix Nouveaux Dessins (1st série) [Cross Stitch New Designs (1st Series)]
Point de Croix Nouveaux Dessins (1st série) [Cross Stitch New Designs (1st Series)]
Monograph · 33 pages · French
A French-language pattern album from the DMC Bibliothèque containing 24 numbered plates (Planches 1-24) of cross-stitch charts, each on a grid numbered 0-170 by 0-100. The charts are printed in red, blue, green and orange and show Art Nouveau-style floral borders, tulips, birds, bees, peacock motifs, monograms, and a border of children figures. The album ends with DMC advertising: a description of the company's cotton, linen and silk threads and a price list of other Bibliothèque D.M.C publications.
Ricami Norvegesi [Norwegian Embroidery]
Ricami Norvegesi [Norwegian Embroidery]
Book · 61 pages · Italian
Italian-language DMC Library album on Norwegian (Hardanger) embroidery, a white-on-white counted-thread cutwork with drawn-thread grounds and needle-lace fillings. It opens with an introduction and instructions on fabrics, threads and the four stages of work, illustrated with numbered stitch figures (bars, picots, punto spirito, wheels, festoons). Thirty-six plates then show finished pieces and details (place mats, runners, table covers, cushions, collars, bags, blouses, window and bed covers), each with notes on materials and DMC thread numbers. The volume ends with a list of other Biblioteca DMC titles.
Trine All 'Ago, la Serie [Needle Lace, 1st Series]
Trine All 'Ago, la Serie [Needle Lace, 1st Series]
Book · 69 pages · Italian
Italian-language album of needle lace (trine all'ago) patterns from the DMC Library, first series, by Th. de Dillmont. It opens with a short history of needle lace (Reticella, punto in aria, Venetian point) and an explanatory treatise on tracing, lace stitches, festoon stitch, twisted and overcast bars and picots. Fifteen plates of finished lace (Figures 23-80) follow, covering Reticella squares and rounds, Reticella imitations with braid (spighette), and Venetian point laces. Back sections give full-size white-on-black working models and tables of DMC thread sizes (Cordonnet, Lin pour dentelles, Alsatia) for each figure, plus DMC publisher advertising.
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