By method: Counted Thread

“Baroque Charted Designs for Needlework engraved“ by Johan Sibmacher
Dover Publications, 1975
ISBN 0-486-23186-0

This is a republication of an 1880 edition of “Newes Modelbuch ….Inn Druck verfertigt” originally published in Nuremburg in 1604. Contains counted thread patterns. A primary resource.

“The New Carolingian Modelbook” by Kim Brody Salazar (writing as Ianthe d’Averoigne)
Outlaw Press, 1995
ISBN 0-9642082-2-9

Many, many counted thread patterns. The period patterns have the source and date of the pattern. Patterns that she has created are clearly listed as being originals developed by her. An *excellent* secondary resource.

Appendix A talks about the period pattern books she worked from and ideas for things to embroider.
Appendix B talks about using the graphs, ground fabrics, thread and color.
Appendix C talks about various embroidery stitches.
Appendix D is a listing of period pattern books.
Appendix E is her annotated bibliography
(a very good resource for more embroidery books, by the way).
Appendix F is a glossary of terms that she uses that might be unfamiliar to some.

She also indexes the patterns by name, date, and origin.

“The Proper Stitch“ by Darlene O’Steen
Symbol of Excellence Publishers, 1994

Has some photographs of period counted thread samplers but they are not attributed or dated (grrr). However, this is the *best* technical guide I’ve ever seen on how to do many, many counted thread techniques that were done in period (yes, counted thread