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Sometimes, people who have never seen Mountmellick embroidery before have some trouble understanding what makes Mountmellick embroidery distinctively its own style. I know I did, when I first started learning about it! Because Mountmellick embroidery is a traditional style of embroidery, by studying historical examples, we can come to an understanding of what it […] I had a lovely day yesterday working on my next book. It was so much fun coming up with new designs, and getting things on to the pages of the book. I’m not yet saying exactly what the book is on, but a description might help to keep you all happy: its another historical whitework […] Multicultural Day went really well the other day. Apparently the injera got eaten happily. For the last hour of the day, family and friends are invited to watch all the kids parade in their costumes. Its wonderful to see, and I often marvel at the Korean parents allowing their daughters to come in their amazing […] Today is multicultural day at my daughters’ school. They’re going dressed in their hand embroidered Ethiopian clothes. Hopefully I’ve had a chance to add a photo to this post for you. I would have written more, but I spent so much time plaiting their hair last night (1 hour each) and making the injera (another […] As you know, the title of this blog is White Threads, due to my enduring love of whitework. Today I came across some whitework with a difference: Quaker cross stitch worked as whitework. Its stunning! Check out the gorgeous whitework version of the Mary Wigham sampler at Needleprint. It was stitched by Willy de Boer. […] Just to recap, so far in the Mountmellick stitch along we have covered tracing the pattern, and getting inspiration for embroidering lily flowers. I suspect that yesterday’s post did not come through in the RSS feed (probably due to my little mistake last week!), so if you didn’t see it, my apologies, and please make […] I usually don’t plan out much of my stitch placement before I start a Mountmellick embroidery design. Sometimes I’ll have some of an idea of what I’d like to use, and maybe a vague idea of where, or perhaps a particular treatment for a specific motif, but much of the time I just figure it […] I’ve recently finished reading The Lady and The Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier. It was interesting to read her fictional story of how the tapestries came to be, and the family and people around them. I love the Unicorn tapestries. They are just gorgeous, and when we were in New York several years ago, we visited […] “Embroidery in Britain from 1200-1750” is a book that I keep coming back to. I love soaking up the visual delights found in it. This book is a visual survey of some of the delights of the V&A’s textile collection. It includes a couple of essays, then a listing of the plates with sizes and […] Today I have a book review for you of “Historical Fashion in Detail: The 17th and 18th Centuries” by Avril Hart and Susan North. This is an older edition of a book that is now entitled “Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Fashion in detail”. As I have not seen the new edition to see whether it […] |
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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