Great Embroidery Pattern Resource!
Here's a terrific resource for free embroidery patterns, along with some tutorial information on cleaning up scanned patterns. I think you'll find these patterns super-useful for all kinds of embroidery techniques - either to use as they are, or to use a source of inspiration for adapting.
The website is actually named after an old embroidery stamping catalog, the J. F. Ingalls pattern catalog from 1886. The J.F. Ingalls website is an initiative of John Governale, who has scanned in more than 250 pages of the original 1886 catalog.
You can visit the scan index to see all the different embroidery patterns (there are heaps of them - each page has many be-sprinkled about on it!). They're all in jpg format and can be downloaded.
John also has two excellent tutorials on cleaning up images and converting them to vectors so that you can enlarge them without losing clarity.
So, if you're looking for some design ideas, you might want to take a minute (or ten, or twenty...) to check out the J.F. Ingalls website! (After all, you can never have too many patterns!)
The website is actually named after an old embroidery stamping catalog, the J. F. Ingalls pattern catalog from 1886. The J.F. Ingalls website is an initiative of John Governale, who has scanned in more than 250 pages of the original 1886 catalog.
You can visit the scan index to see all the different embroidery patterns (there are heaps of them - each page has many be-sprinkled about on it!). They're all in jpg format and can be downloaded.
John also has two excellent tutorials on cleaning up images and converting them to vectors so that you can enlarge them without losing clarity.
So, if you're looking for some design ideas, you might want to take a minute (or ten, or twenty...) to check out the J.F. Ingalls website! (After all, you can never have too many patterns!)
Posted By: Mary Corbet on Tuesday, February 12, 2008
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Great resource and they're copyright free! Thanks, Mary.
Mary, Have been to that site many times and love it. Thanks for pointing out the tutorial.
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