You may remember a short while ago I posted about a certain piece of Elizabethan embroidery which may or may not have featured plaited braid stitch. At the beginning of the post I suggested that I might be about to display my ignorance. It seems that while I correctly identified that the main coiling stems […]
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Happy New Year to all my blog readers! I have now finished my Elizabethan embroidery. It is unlike anything I have ever stitched before and I had so much fun doing it. This all came about because of a sort of personal challenge from Mary Corbet for me to include plaited braid stitch in my […] For my current needlework project, I needed some gold thread for stitching plaited braid stitch. A few days ago I had tried the 371 Jacobean Gold thread that I’d bought last week (a small amount of to test) and it was too thin and didn’t give good enough coverage. Then I’d tried some Kreinik #7 […] The title of this post doesn’t seem particularly remarkable for someone who is a needlework designer and writes books about embroidery. However, I have been seriously ill for much of the last year, and during the worst times I have been unable to stitch. It has therefore been a wonderful thrill to me that I […] Ok, I’m going to be a little controversial here, or maybe just show my ignorance… 🙂 I have been looking at the front cover of a book that I own “Three Hundred Years of Embroidery 1600-1900: Treasures from the Collection of the Embroiderers’ Guild of Great Britain” by Pauline Johnstone. On the front cover it […] |
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