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Usage - Bed Linens
Arabesque 2 - $49.95
A wonderful two-color traditional monogram style! The vines behind each letter are different. Try sewing the vine pattern with variegated thread for a softer antique quality. Simplify the look by skipping the first color or use the vines without the letters as embellishments around buttonholes, etc.
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Arabesque 4 - $49.95
A large-scale script monogram style. One-color graceful letters from the 1930s create an aura of luxury and sophistication. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Arabesque 5 - $49.95
Taken from 19th century artwork, this monogram style is done in graceful satin stitches. The swirling letter style can be used as a single letter monogram on formal napkins, or combined in dramatic two and three-letter monograms on linens.
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Arabesque 7 - $49.95
Taken from artwork from 1940, this style is done as a satin stitch monogram. The letters are upright with dramatic swirl details. The larger letters are intended to be flanked by the smaller letters for three-letter monograms, but can also be used alone. This timeless style is great on linens, and can be enlarged significantly within your embroidery software program for use on shower curtains and chair backs. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Arabesque 9 - $49.95
This gorgeous monogram style was digitized from artwork drawn in 1900 for professional hand monogrammers. We have digitized the small ornamental extensions as candlewick stitches, and the rows of embellishments within the letter borders as wing-needle stitches with an open center. Pictured here in several colors, this style looks spectacular white-on-white. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Arabesque 10 - $49.95
A luxurious French monogram style, from the 1920s. Each letter has a curling tail, and is done in satin stitch. Used either as a graceful single letter monogram, or combined and overlapped for dramatic effect. This style looks sophisticated in any color scheme. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Arabesque 11 - $49.95
A flowing vertical style - not too feminine, not too masculine. This satin stitch monogram style is digitized from 19th Century artwork. Good choice for linens. A very much enlarged style - 8 or 9 inches - would look great on a shower curtain or pillow. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Arabesque 12 - $49.95
There are left, middle and right versions of each embroidered letter, and in addition to the satin stitch letter each contains a section of a satin stitch swag, accented with candlewick stitches. Aligning the candlewick stitches in your embroidery software program will produce a continuous swag and a three-letter monogram. The center letter has an additional open ring detail at the top, and can be used alone. The artwork for this style is from the 1920s. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Art Deco 2 - $49.95
A five-color monogram style - seeding stitch fill patterns with satin stitch and running stitch details - inspired by Art Deco movie posters - think "Miami Beach", Rudolf Valentino", "butter popcorn" (with real butter). ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Art Deco 3 - $49.95
This two-color monogram style is a recreation from the late 1930s.The background shading is composed of overlapping satin stitches, and the letter itself is a thin satin stitch - this style is equally elegant on linens in colors or tone-on-tone. Several of the letters were pictured in a 1938 article in "House Beautiful", and from those we were able to imagine the rest. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Art Deco 4 - $49.95
A three-letter monogram in this style can be composed as a square or a diagonal arrangement - or align smaller size letters with a larger size letter flipped on its side. The fill is satin stitch, split into two sections with mitered corners, and with a thin satin stitch border. This three-color design can be simplified by sewing the letters with only one or two thread colors. This monogram style has a masculine quality. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Art Deco 5 - $49.95
This is a crisp and simple style from the 1940s. A combination of three letters, plus companion borders will create a square monogram. This style looks great on linens and towels, and can also be used for fashion sewing on a scarf or for an eye-catching embellishment on a jacket. While a standard monogram traditionally shows the last name initial as the largest, this style is designed to have that initial placed on the right. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Art Deco 6 - $49.95
Taken from 1940s artwork, the letters are done in satin stitch. The monogram set includes a grouping of three dot accents, digitized to simulate a wing-needle look with a hole in the center of the circle. This versatile style can be used in a variety of arrangements - letters on a diagonal with the dots used as caps, on a baseline with the dots as flanking elements, or on a center line. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Arts and Crafts 1 - $49.95
This monogram style is digitized from American Arts and Crafts linotype styles from the 1920s. The letters are wide satin stitch, with a thin satin stitch outline as a border. The designs can be sewn with our without the border. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Arts and Crafts 2 - $49.95
This elegant monogram style, digitized from artwork from 1925, is influenced by the English Arts and Crafts movement. Unlike the architectural simplicity of the American Arts & Crafts movement, the English style features more flowers and flourishes. This five-color design features a chainstitch vine detail, a graceful satin stitch letter, and a three-color flower. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Arts and Crafts 3 - $49.95
This is another graceful monogram style digitized from artwork from the 1930s. There are left and right versions for each letter. The left hand version includes a stem and satin stitch leaves, a bright stylized flower, and two small circular accents. When combined with a letter from the right hand version, the combination creates a circular shape. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Arts and Crafts 4 - $49.95
Another monogram style influenced by the English Arts and Crafts movement. The artwork is from 1935. Designed as a single-letter monogram, each letter is presented with a five color flower - a stylized blue aster. The flower is made from satin and bean stitches, the flower petals outlined with bean stitches. The letters themselves are done in a curved block style, with a second color as a shadow or highlight, depending on the thread color used. The letters or the flower can each be easily used alone. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Avant Garde 2 - $49.95
The voids in the one-color fill pattern create roses - the pattern is different for each letter. Large, 1930s-inspired monogram letters look wonderful on linens, garments or special projects. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Baroque 1 - $49.95
Handwork monograms from the 1920s and 1930s often combine a central outline initial with flanking smaller initials done in satin stitch. This style, taken from artwork originally produced in Europe for professional hand embroiderers, uses a center letter with shading details. The small ring-shaped corner detail creates a very classic look that is just as interesting white-on-white. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Baroque 2 - $49.95
This luxurious monogram style combines two-color central letters with satin stitch flanking letters and scrolled satin stitch corner brackets. The unusual fill in the larger letters is accomplished with a meandering vermicelli stitch -each stitch is digitized by hand. The result has a texture like chenille, and is finished with a thin satin stitch border. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Candlewick - $49.95
A French handwork monogram style from the 1870s, with digitized candlewicking details. This two-color design looks equally vibrant and traditional sewn tone-on-tone with one thread color. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Chinois - $49.95
Paris in the 1930s - a truly international city that embraced art and culture from around the world. This monogram style from 1933 has an oriental flavor, stylish and elegant. This playful style would be perfect on chiffon pajamas. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Cutwork 1 - $49.95
Cutwork is an heirloom embroidery technique incorporating open areas into the overall design. In "Richelieu" cutwork, distinctive buttonhole bars cross the open areas. This handwork technique can be created by machine using heavy-duty water soluble stabilizer. The artwork for this monogram style comes from 1917.
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Cutwork 2 - $49.95
This Cutwork monogram style has a harvest theme. The artwork is from 1910. The satin stitch letters have a shadowed area made of manual seed stitches with a thin satin stitch border, and a three-color wheat embellishment. The open ladderwork areas within each letter can be used with heavy-duty water soluble stabilizer for a true cutwork effect.
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Diamond 4 - $49.95
In the 1930s and 40s, department stores like Woolworths sold iron-on transfer patterns for a wide variety or subject matter, including monogramming. The patterns could be transferred to fabric with a hot iron, and the pattern then used for hand embroidery. This style is based on one of those patterns. In addition to creating a three-letter diamond monogram, the smaller left and right flanking letters can be used together to create a two-letter diamond shape. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Diamond 5 - $49.95
A three-letter diamond monogram is one of the all-time classic styles. This one is based on a vintage 1940s iron-on transfer pattern - sold in department stores for 15 cents. The appropriate left, middle, and right initials are combined within your embroidery software program, along with four corner brackets, to create your own timeless monogram. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Diplomat - $49.95
This powerful masculine monogram design is from the 1920s. The strong vertical orientation of the letters create an aura of high style from a time when designs of this type would have been found embroidered on dressing gowns, smoking jackets and plush towels. The design is digitized in satin stitch. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Empire - $49.95
A graceful old-fashioned monogram style, designed to create three-letter combinations that form an oval shape. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Gothic 7 - $49.95
Although this monogram style might typically be called "Old English" it comes from a continental source, so it would more accurately be called "Old French." The letters are done in satin stitch with underlay designed to give a dimensional rounded quality. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Gothic 10 - $49.95
This elaborate late 19th Century monogram style is a two-color design with leaf and vine details digitized as satin stitch and ample underlay for a rounded effect. Within the satin stitch letter borders is an unusual fill pattern composed of overlapping meandering running stitches with each individual stitch manually digitized and carefully placed. The fill simulates a hand-stitched seed stitch, and provides a luxurious texture whether executed in color or tone-on-tone. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Gothic 11 - $49.95
The artwork for this style was designed for hand embroiderers in 1879. We have adapted this very traditional monogram style for machine embroidery by adding an additional underlay column throughout, which simulates the look of padded satin stitch. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Gothic 12 - $49.95
This monogram style is from the United States, created in 1875 - one of our oldest historical styles. The letters are digitized in satin stitch. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Jefferson - $49.95
This monogram style is based on Thomas Jefferson's embroidered monogram, which we came across in a 1930s magazine article. An upright style, composed of satin stitches with traditional flare details. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Kiddo - $49.95
This monogram style is perfect for that precocious child or grand-child on your gift list. Done in satin stitch with ample underlay - great on lots of things, from tote bags to towels. Create a special monogram for your favorite kid - or for the kid in you. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Medieval - $49.95
A large classic one-color monogram style - great for towels! Brought up to date from actual 12th Century lettering styles (which did not include several letters in the modern alphabet - they weren't invented yet). This style suggests typography from the credits for black and white films about knights and maidens. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Olympia - $49.95
Taken from artwork from 1908, this grecian monogram style is digitized with satin stitch columns in two colors. In addition to their use on linens, try enlarging these letters significantly within your embroidery software program for use on a pillow or a chairback. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
Oval 4 - $49.95
From the catalogue of a commercial monogram shop in the late 1930s, this modern style features satin stitch letters intended to create three-letter monograms in a slanted oval shape. The included placement design makes perfect placement of the letters quick and easy. ››Detailed Info ››Catalog Page ››Compare Styles Usage - Bed Linens
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