Redwork Index

This website is chock full of Redwork books, files, and free patterns for Redwork and Outline Stitch Embroidery. For your convenience, here is a listing of sources for information.

Redwork Articles

Redwork Quilt by Margie Hammett Wins Award

Antique Redwork Examples - photos of items recently collected

Redwork Embroidery - Nineteenth Century Style: Pillow Shams and An Apron

Carol Godreau's creation: The "Grace Deering" Ship Quilt. This quilt utilizes Outline Stitch embroidery. Read the family history associated with it.

Fiddler Jones poem page has a close-up photo of a fiddler that appears on a nineteenth century baby bib.

Free Patterns Page - includes some special designs from the late nineteenth century Cunnings catalog

Song File - "Los Peces En El Río" has a Bluework image of the Holy Family

The Turtle Quilt - a delightful twentieth century outline stitch embroidery quilt and what we have learned about it so far. Photos and information contributed by Julie Liebenhofer.

Antique Redwork Object - A Tote Bag with "Flower Girl"

Related File: (antique) Kate Greenaway Designs provided by Joan Kiplinger.

Old Redwork Design

This is an antique peacock image. Here are two images. The first is a line drawing with a link of an image, and the second is a photo of a block from the same printed design that appears in one of our books.

photo of redwork peacock quilt block