Shop Owners Promote excellence in stitching and increase your sales. Novice and experienced needlers will benefit.

Teachers Encourage perfection in this basic stitch without spending valuable time, allowing you to concentrate on advanced technique.

Ecclesiastic and Group Coordinators Achieve continuity in your projects. Multiple stitchers will stitch uniformly. Individual Stitchers The instructions in this book can unravel the sometimes baffling diagonal stitch for even the average stitcher.

"The Tent stitch is the basic needlepoint stitch. The accepted best way of executing the tent stitch is the Diagonal Basketweave method. It is called the Diagonal Basketweave because it is sewn in diagonal rows forming a unique, beautiful and secure basketweave pattern on the back of the canvas creating a durable fabric."
--Davie Hyman

And so begins Davie's book, The Diagonal Basketweave. Written in 1973 and now newly updated and revised for its fifth edition, Davie's book has become a standard for teachers, project leaders, and individual stitchers.

This book is designed to accomplsh the following:

1) Introduce the basic stitch in such a logical fashion that within a short time, with careful practice, anyone should be able to execute the most exacting canvases.

2) Release the average needlepointer from: a) using just diagonal basketweave to fill in the background; and b) missing stitches that must be picked up after the canvas is supposedly finished.

3) Assist the expert addict with a few new tricks and ideas.

Contents
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