Stitches

Does anyone know where I can find free online instructions for all the different embroidery stitches?

I need to find online written directions on how to make all the different types of embroidery stitches. I found the link below, but I need to be able to print it all out, like in a book format. Does anyone know where I can find this? I do not want videos, please. And I do not need patterns.....just instructions on every different type of stitch. Thanks. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Embroidery_stitches

Public Comments

1. The place you're most likely to find instructions for nearly every embroidery stitch: http://inaminuteago.com/stitchindex.html
2. To find online instructions for embroidery stitches, try searching on, "Embroidery Stitch Dictionary" and choose something beyond the wiki. There are needle workers out there who have been filling their references long before wiki's even started. A hands down favorite is Sharon B's "in a minute ago". It's a rich website with a lengthy stitch dictionary. http://inaminuteago.com/stitchindex.html I also like the UK Embroidery Guild's online publication, "Stitch" http://www.embroiderersguild.com/stitch/stitches/index.html There are many websites that have bits of embroidery instruction using antique-looking illustrations. You can follow those or go to the actual full books on Gutenberg.org for free, try these: Therese de Dillmont's entire "Encyclopedia of Needlework" http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20776/20776-h/needlework-h.html#TABLE_OF_CONTENTS Higgin's "Handbook of Embroidery": http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24964/24964-h/24964-h.htm Fitzwilliam's "Jacobean Embroidery" http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18971/18971-h/18971-h.htm Day's "Art in Needlework" http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28269/28269-h/28269-h.htm "Beeton's Book of Needlework" has a section on embroidery http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15147/15147-h/15147-h.htm Christie's "Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving" http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20386/20386-h/20386-h.htm You can find many, many PDF books of original fine needlework books for free at the Antique Pattern Library: http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/completelist.htm This would cost but the Embroidery Guild of America has a full course of study through the mail: http://www.egausa.org/ Myself, I'd probably just to the public library (or inter-library loan) for a huge number of embroidery references including the excellent: "Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches" or just about any printing of the "Reader's Digest" guides, there's much, much more. I kind of laughed with your statement of 'every different type of stitch', there are so many.
3. If you are looking for Hand Embroidery stitches, there are several really good books at Jo-Ann Fabrics, and the public library. good luck.