Casalguidi Linen Embroidery

Casalguidi is a style of linen embroidery originating in Italy, using a drawn-thread ground overworked with a four-sided stitch. Mitrofanis explains the history and characteristics of this traditional technique, and suggests a number of projects to try.

'Casalguidi Style Linen Embroidery', lavishly illustrated, revives the glorious art of Casalguidi emboidery, named after a small village near Pisoia in Italy, which developed and flourished between the late 1900s and World War I