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An appliqué monogram style offers the opportunity to use any fabric - patterned, floral, or plain - and achieve a totally different look each time. This one has a playful rounded satin stitch outline.
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Category - Vertical
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This appliqué monogram style has nice wide columns, and an upright appearance. It lends itself to use with straight or geometric fabrics, but you can choose whatever appeals to you.
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Category - Vertical
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Applique monograms seem to be increasingly popular lately. This style is simple and geometric, finished with a satin stitch outline. Any fabric from plain to patterned is appropriate.
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Category - Vertical
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This appliqué monogram style is based on an Art Nouveau lettering style from the early 1900s. With wide satin stitch columns this is an easy style to use as appliqué, but also looks great without appliqué - white on white on towels. Just skip the color changes.
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Category - Vertical
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A two-color Old English style shadowed monogram done in satin stitch. Simplify the look by skipping the first color.
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Category - Vertical
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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.
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Category - Vertical
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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.
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Category - Vertical
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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.
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Category - Vertical
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A rounded monogram style with a checkerboard fill pattern. A three-color design - simplify the look by sewing the fill in one color, or skip the fill entirely and use the border alone.
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Category - Vertical
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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).
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Category - Vertical
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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.
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Category - Vertical
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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.
This style is featured in "Hobknobbing" by Betsy Dubicki, Creative Machine Embroidery magazine, May/June 2003.
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Category - Vertical
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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.
Not everyone has three initials, so in addition to the combined triple border, we have included each of those three lines as an individual design, which will make it easy to create single letter and two-letter monograms.
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Category - Vertical
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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.
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Category - Vertical
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Digitized from artwork produced in Germany in 1929, when stylish display typefaces were the seals of modernity. This monogram style is digitized for appliqué, with a running stitch for position, and a light density zig-zag stitch for tack-down. These two elements are covered by satin stitch columns. This style is equally striking in one color without the appliqué.
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Category - Vertical
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A two-color 19th Century Scandinavian-inspired monogram style, with small oversewn vines and leaves on a seeding stitch fill pattern. Simplify the look by only sewing the first color.
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Category - Vertical
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An early 20th Century three-color monogram style digitized with color breaks in the satin stitch fills to give the letters a calico quality, and finished with a satin stitch border. Simplify the look by sewing the satin stitch fill in one color.
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Category - Vertical
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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.
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Category - Vertical
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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.
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Category - Vertical
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This unusual monogram style is digitized from artwork from 1934. The satin stitch oval, with interior thorn shapes, is joined with graceful, theatrical letters. A matching alphabet style occupies the upper space - the combination of the two creates a vertical monogram that evokes classic pre-war style and elegance. The monogram may be sewn all in one color, and the letters can be used alone, without the background shape.
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Category - Vertical
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Digitized from artwork from 1937, this monogram set combines thin vertical satin stitch letters with a festive border that is basically geometric, but with a bit of extra flare in the longest brackets - knobs at the ends. The brackets can be sewn in two colors as shown, with contrasting letter color, or everything can be sewn in one tone-on-tone color. Great for napkins.
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Category - Vertical
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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.
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Category - Vertical
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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.
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Category - Vertical
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A three-color monogram style, the letter shapes are composed of blocks - sew thes out with one thread color for a different look. This style has a solid, masculine quality - an interesting variation of the conventional Athletic Block.
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Category - Vertical
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The artwork for this monogram style is from the 1950s - it has a sophisticated, country look. Simple letter shapes are surrounded by a decorative design composed of corner curls and unusual stitch types for an inside triangular and outside rectangular border. The monograms are inspired by decorative bookplate designs.
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Category - Vertical
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Suggested by a dedicated sewing enthusiast - buttons of different sizes in various groupings create these monogram letters. A must for sewing devotees! Six colors - the colors can be coordinated to match your sewing outfit.
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Category - Vertical
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A four-color monogram style, digitized for appliqué with a fill pattern composed of rows of Christmas trees and wrapped presents. Use this style all year as an appliqué letter by skipping over the fill pattern and use the border alone.
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Category - Vertical
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A true classic monogram, from the 1950s - think "circle pins", cashmere sweaters." Merge designs to create any combination of three letters, then surround them with the optional circular border. The letters and the circle are elegant satin stitches. Great on towels, linens, high-fashion garments, scarves, etc. Endless possibilities!
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Category - Vertical
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This circle monogram style is done in satin stitch for a true 1940s look - there is something about it that evokes the adventure of long-distance train travel. Merge any three letters, together with the decorative bar embellishments for a complete circle, or use the letters alone for a streamlined variation. Digitized to allow multi-colors, the monogram can also be sewn tone-on-tone.
This style is featured in "Signature Series" by Anne Van Der Kley, Machine Embroidery and Textile Art (Australia), April 2007.
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Category - Vertical
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Satin stitch monogram letters with ample underlay are featured in this classic style from the 1940s. The set includes left, middle, and right versions for each letter. The satin stitch brackets complete the circle shape.
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The artwork for this fanciful monogram style is from 1916. The delicate satin stitch letters can be combined into a three-letter circular monogram. The surrounding bow and border is a separate design. The letters can be used with or without the border.
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Digitized from artwork from 1939, this monogram set molds each letter into a circular shape. The satin stitch letters include curls and embellishments - an elegant formal style.
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Category - Vertical
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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.
We have introduced color changes to extend the design capabilities, but like many of our styles this monogram would traditionally be white-on-white.
Step-by-Step instructions are provided. For those not inclined to use the cutwork option this monogram style still looks beautiful.
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Category - Vertical
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The artwork for this monogram style is from 1938. It is a blend of old world (open ladderwork borders) and new world (a simple contemporary letter style).
For a true cutwork effect, use heavy-duty water soluble stabilizer. This style is just as attractive without the open ladderwork, or the borders can have a fabric insert if executed as appliqué.
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Category - Vertical
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Another monogram classic, this one from the 1950s. Merge designs to create any combination of two letters, then frame them with the corners to complete the Diamond shape. The letters and corners are elegant satin stitches with ample underlay to produce a full appearance. Great on towels, linens, scarves, etc.
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Category - Vertical
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This monogram style is from the 1930s. The background is an overlapping mesh, surrounded by a satin stitch border with a bean stitch highlight. The satin stitch monogram letter is flanked by two circular embellishments. The letters are digitized for appliqué, so a contrasting colored fabric can be laid under the mesh, or the design can be sewn as cutwork utilizing water-soluble stabilizer. Although digitized with 5 colors, this looks wonderfully subtle if sewn all in white.
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Category - Vertical
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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.
This style is featured in "Simply Napkins" by Gail Brown and Mary Mulari, Krause Publications, 2003.
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Category - Vertical
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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.
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Category - Vertical
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The artwork for this single-letter monogram design came from an iron-on transfer pattern from the 1930s. The upright initials are done in satin stitch. The two-color bracket has simulated handwork seeding stitch accents framed with satin stitch outlines, and the overall design is finished off with flanking French knots. The letters can be used alone by stopping after the letter is sewn.
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Category - Vertical
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The artwork for this monogram style is French, from 1936. Each letter is cleverly adapted to create a diamond shape, and done in satin stitch. These are intended as single-initial monograms for use on napkins, linens, or fashion accessories.
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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.
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This monogram style is inspired by an American folk art movement known as "Tramp Art". Intricately carved woodworking projects (mirrors, frames, boxes) were produced by traveling craftsmen in the late 19th and early 20th Century. Influenced by German and Scandinavian religious styles, tramp art frames featured crossed elements at the corners, with all edges carefully notched. Our letters are done in satin stitch, with an intricate contrasting border done in a special stitch.
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Inspired by 16th Century illuminated manuscripts, this four-color monogram style has a highly detailed two-color fill pattern. Simplify the look by skipping over the fills and use the satin stitch and double running stitch border alone.
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Category - Vertical
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A French 19th Century two-color monogram style - satin stitch letters with a double running stitch border. These letters are designed to be stacked on top of each other to create unique two-letter monograms, or use the letters individually or place them side by side. This style looks really elegant sewn tone-on-tone.
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A complex vine background, different for each letter, sets off these block monogram letters with contrasting border. This graceful 19th century style can be simplified by not sewing the first color.
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This monogram style is English, dating from about 1900. There is a very delicate vine and leaf pattern in the background, composed of thin satin stitches and bean stitches, along with two-color satin stitch flowers. The letters are a serif block style, done in satin stitch fill with a thin outline detail. The overall motif creates a square. The letters can be used alone if you wish by skipping past the background. This is a five color design, but it looks equally special sewn in all one color.
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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.
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The artwork for this monogram style is early 20th Century French, and comes from a magazine for professional hand embroiderers. Although the original calls for a single color, we have digitized this as two colors for those who might prefer the style without the small floral detail - not quite a fleur-de-lis - just skip over color one.
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Reminiscent of the intricate ironwork in a great European cathedral, this elaborate monogram style is done in satin stitch. The artwork is French, from the early 1900s. This is another style that looks timeless and spectacular white-on-white.
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Category - Vertical
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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.
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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.
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This monogram style is from the United States, created in 1875 - one of our oldest historical styles. The letters are digitized in satin stitch.
1875 - a noteworthy year. The British government purchases the Suez Canal, Alexander Graham Bell achieves the technical breakthrough that will lead to the creation of an electric telephone, and the United States Congress passes a Civil Rights Act that guarantees blacks equal rights in public places.
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This monogram style is digitized from artwork published for hand embroiderers in 1869. The satin stitch letters are embellished with an overlapping satin stitch binding that simulates a knot. We first saw handwork examples of this style while on a research trip to the Embroiderer's Guild in England.
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Category - Vertical
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This two-color Greek style is perfect for sororities and fraternities. The outlines can be used without the fills. The complete Greek alphabet has been digitized - 24 letters.
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Category - Vertical
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This monogram style, based on artwork from 1864, is done in 3mm wide satin stitch. The elaborate intertwining loops and straight sections are reminiscent of carefully crafted architectural ironwork.
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This monogram set is digitized in satin stitch from artwork produced in the 1910s. It has a very elastic style - the letters seem infused with an exuberant energy. They sew beautifully on linens.
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Digitized from artwork from the mid-1920s, this streamlined style is associated with crisp modern design - a similar version appeared on notecards in the 1939 film drama "Dark Victory". Done in satin stitch, we have split the wide column into two, which makes it easy to enlarge the letters in your embroidery software program for really large monograms on towels and shower curtains. Don't want two colors? Sew both with the same thread color.
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It's hard to find monogram styles with very wide columns, and even harder to find them done in a traditional way - satin stitch - rather than as a flat fill pattern. The artwork for this style is from the 1940s, and we have split each column into two parts for an unusual visual effect.
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From the 1940s, this monogram set is sleek, smooth, and thin. The satin stitch details are slightly fluted, widening gradually - reminiscent of elegant champagne glasses.
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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.
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This monogram style came from an iron-on transfer pattern from the 1940s. It is intended for the creation of a three-letter oval shaped monogram, accomplished by merging the appropriate letters from left, middle, and right versions. The center letter can be used alone for a single letter monogram. The designs are digitized in satin stitch with ample underlay for use on towels or fleece.
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The artwork for this monogram style is from 1947, but it still looks bright and modern. The satin stitch letters can be used one-by-one, as three-letter combinations, or enclosed within the graceful satin stitch border. The style can easily be resized within your embroidery software program for additional flexibility.
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This two-color script style is influenced by designs produced on old zig-zag stitch monogramming machines. The shadowed effect can be created with either color as the lighter highlight, or for a simpler look sew only the first color. The mirrored brackets are an option, and can be added for decorative effect.
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The two color letters, composed of small satin stitch leaves with detailed running stitch outlines, are inspired by a fragment of a wall fresco from Pompeii.
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This architectural monogram style is european in origin. The wide satin stitch letters feature a split satin-stitch fill pattern, with delicate satin-stitch scrollwork in the background, giving an elaborate shadow effect. The letters can easily be used alone by skipping the first color scrollwork.
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A smooth and graceful monogram style that will really appeal to music lovers. Inspired by 1930ís Art Deco interpretations of the lyre, the harp of ancient Greece, there are thin rows of satin stitch "strings" that compliment the satin stitch letter design. Done in two colors, this style looks equally classy sewn tone-on-tone in a single color.
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Based on artwork from the 1940s, this monogram style has a simple formal elegance. The two color crest design is done in satin stitch with a thin satin stitch outline, and the fluid upright letters are done in satin stitch with scroll details. Use the crest alone, or the letters alone, by skipping the unnecessary part.
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This monogram style is digitized from artwork from the 1930s. It consists of a 5 color decorative crest design, done in satin stitch with manually digitized fills for the two stylized flowers. The crest surrounds satin stitch letters that have different versions for left and right for use in two-letter monograms. The letters can be used without the crest.
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Rustic" doesn't have to mean "crude". In American architecture, country living and Art Deco styling came together in National Park Service buildings in the 1920s. This monogram style, done in satin stitch, is digitized from artwork of the period.
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This "Old English" monogram style also has some distinctly American roots. In 1939, Big Band leader Harry James discovered a kid named Frank Sinatra waiting tables and singing at a small restaurant and supper club just outside New York City on Route 9-W in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. The club was The Rustic Cabin and this style was used on the menu cover.
Digitized in satin stitch, the wide areas are done with split columns and have extra underlay for additional lift.
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Taken from artwork from the 1930s, this is a classic three-letter triangle monogram style - the type that would have been found on fine linens or the linings of luxurious fur coats. The set includes left, middle, and right versions for each letter. There is a separate design for the two corner details, and a running stitch triangle outline to help with prefect placement of the parts. The letters and corner details are digitized in statin stitch with plenty of underlay for a traditional rounded appearance. The letters can be used without the corner details if you wish.
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Taken from artwork from a 1933 French publication for professional embroiders, this versatile triangle style includes everything needed to create many variations for two-letter monograms. There are left and right side versions of the alphabet, which can be used alone or in combination with the triangular border. There are also left and right versions of two styles of corner brackets. These satin stitch designs can be used on anything, but are particularly useful for on-point napkin monograms.
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A classic two-letter triangle monogram, with a corner bracket, arranged in a dramatic right triangle shape. The artwork for this style came from a 1930s European source. This style can be used as is for linens. Use your resizing software to reduce the size for napkins, or enlarge for use on towels or shower curtains. The designs are digitized in satin stitch.
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We acquired a style book from an old monogram shop that went out of business. The book contains examples of the shop's offerings, showing only a few letters for each style. We were intrigued by a variation on a geometric triangle - this one has curling script letters that can be arranged in a three- letter triangle form, with brackets to accent the triangle shape. We recreated the rest of the alphabet, digitizing the letters in satin stitch. An outline template design is also included to make it quick and easy to place the letters when merging them in your embroidery software program.
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Category - Vertical
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This monogram style is perfect for sports enthusiasts, and can be used on shirts, jackets, etc. The design has a classic athletic block shape, and features a fill pattern finished with a satin stitch outline in a different color. The same design can also be used with an appliqué substituted for the fill - the digitizing begins with a running stitch, a machine stop, then a light density tack-down stitch along the letter outline. The appliquÈ option will save stitches, and can be used with the satin stitch border.
Numbers 0-9 are available for purchase in the Project Corner section.
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Great for towels, the letters in this one-color monogram style have little horns and ears, and a distinct personality - also very elegant on white linens, sewn with white thread.
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Category - Vertical
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Satin stitch monogram letters, with a background of leaves and vines. The background is a combination of satin and double running stitches - each background design is different. When several letters are aligned the backgrounds appear continuous. There are left and right handed end designs which match the backgrounds, and can be added for a fancier look.
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Category - Vertical
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Delicate, upright satin stitch monogram letters, with crossbars and flared feet and tops. A very elegant 1890s style.
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Another classic Victorian monogram style, digitized with plenty of underlay for a rounded look. The bottom of the long leg of each letter has a stylized leaf detail. This style looks wonderful on linens.
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This satin stitch monogram style is large and great on linens and towels. It also looks quite modern, espite the fact that the artwork, which we found in Europe, was published in 1872 - more than 130 years ago!
Digitizing this monogram style is the subject of "Digitizing Letters for Monograms Part I" by Richards Jarden, Designs in Machine Embroidery magazine, September/October 2007.
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This monogram style, with its wide satin stitch columns and open circle embellishment, has a fresh, festive quality. The artwork is from the early 20th Century. We have used extra underlay to give the columns a special rounded look.
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Category - Vertical
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In the 1940s the artwork for classic monogram styles could be found in department stores and used as patterns for hand embroidery. This style is digitized in satin stitch in two sizes, and comes with a satin stitch border design that frames a three-letter vertical monogram. The letters can also be aligned in a horizontal row, a diagonal arrangement, or used one by one, so this style is quite versatile.
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