It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these posts. I’ve been a little busy doing dreadfully hard things like cruising, then getting back to normal at home, and getting on with some work. 😉
Firstly, take a look at the embroidery on the linked page and try to keep your jaw shut. I sat here with my mouth open, marvelling. Eventually all the members of the family came over and marvelled too. You’ll need to run it through a translator to read the words, but it’s the pictures that are the main attraction anyway.
Another one for the online translator is this blog post about an antique cloth with Punt ‘e Nù (Sardinian knotted embroidery). It has beautiful embroidery with some really interesting motifs that I hadn’t seen before.
With the birth of the new English princess, Charlotte, the ACT (Australian Capital Territory) Embroiderers Guild has been commissioned by the Australian Government to embroider a woollen baby blanket for the little princess. It will feature Australia’s national flower, the wattle. Best wishes to all the embroiderers – I’m sure you’ll do all Australian embroiderers proud with your beautiful embroidery!
I found this beautiful example of Cypriot lace within the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s online collection. It doesn’t say that it is Lefkara lace, but I suspect it might be. That’s one of the things that sometimes annoys me about catalogue information for museum items: unless the curator has intricate knowledge of many different styles of embroidery or lace, sometimes they’re very vague in their descriptions.
The skirt of this makes me very happy.
When I’m not finding interesting and inspiring things on the internet, I’ve been doing a lot of stitching and finishing. I’ve finished a small Mountmellick piece ready for a class submission and I’ve been working on several projects for the book. Trying to bring a sense of completion to a lot of mostly done projects!
Have you found any interesting things you’d like to share with us? Are you working on some interesting embroidery?
White Threads is the blog of Yvette Stanton, the author, designer, publisher behind Vetty Creations' quality needlework books and embroidery products.
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