Muriel Best designer/embroiderer

Letter Writing Week
silk background with applied silks and papers and hand stitching.
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Trained and worked as a graphic designer. Later studied embroidery and holds City and Guild certificates in this subject. Teaches and lectures in both the UK and America.

Member of the Embroiderers' Guild: The Practical Study Group: The Society of Designer Craftsmen and the New Embroidery Group

Publications include:

Stumpwork: historical and contemporary raised embroidery
(B.T. Batsford)

Needlework School
co-author
(Windward Press)

Design Sources for Embroidery
co-author with Vicky Lugg
(B.T. Batsford)

Embroidery Studio
contributor, designer and co-editor
(David and Charles)

My work is currently based on places I have visited, capturing impressions of colour, pattern and atmosphere. The embroideries are hand-stitched and I use a variety of media to create the finished effect.

I exhibit embroidery and painting with the groups that I belong to and also individually.

Foreign Correspondence
silk background with applied silks and papers and hand stitching.
Closer view