Vintage Embroidery Patterns
Victorian floral transfers, Art Nouveau needlework, monograms, cross stitch alphabets and complete stitch guides.
Each Archive Edition preserves the original plates for tracing, stitching and design inspiration.
Victorian and Art Nouveau embroidery designs
This collection gathers historic embroidery books and transfer catalogues: hundreds of floral sprays and borders, Art Nouveau needlework, Victorian monograms, cross stitch alphabets and a complete 1915 stitch course.
- Designs to trace: about 400 motifs in the Briggs & Co. transfer catalogue and flowing botanicals in Liberty & Co. Designs for Needlework.
- Lettering: 1,300+ Victorian monograms and alphabets and the Thérèse de Dillmont cross stitch albums.
- Technique: the 1915 Elementary Embroidery stitch course and 1908 Wallachian embroidery.
Learn the basics in our guide to 8 essential hand embroidery stitches and how to transfer Victorian designs to fabric.
Vintage Embroidery Patterns: questions & answers
Are these iron-on embroidery transfers?
No. The PDFs reproduce historic catalogue pages. Print a design at the size you need and trace it onto fabric with a light box, a window or dressmaker's carbon paper.
Can I use the designs for machine embroidery?
The files are page scans for hand embroidery and tracing. They are not digitized machine embroidery files.
Which embroidery book is best for beginners?
Start with the 1915 Elementary Embroidery course. It teaches the core stitches step by step before moving on to lettering, whitework and crewel work.