|
||||
|
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 [...] I did a little experiment yesterday with the Kreinik Japan No 7 thread. I really wanted to see how it would go, in case I decide that I want to use gold thread on my beret. I don’t think real metallic thread would be happy about being rained on. Kreinik Japan No 7 thread is [...] For anyone who is interested in Italian needlework, a friend of mine, Jeanine, has a newish blog all about it: http://italian-needlework.blogspot.com/ Jeanine lives in Canada. I have never met her, but we have corresponded over many years, often about obscure forms of embroidery that interest us both, but perhaps no-one else. Jeanine lived for [...] For those who love textiles, Ethiopia is a surprisingly rich place. Before we came here, I knew that Ethiopia had many different regional styles of cultural dress, but I really didn’t know what I might find in the way of embroidery. I was surprised to find that embroidery is easily found in Ethiopia, though you [...] My husband feels that this post should be entitled “Lucy in the glass case without any jewellery at all”. Today we went to the National Museum and saw (amongst other things) Lucy. Lucy is the earliest bipedal hominid that we have a record of, classified as australopithecus afarensis. She was found in northern Ethiopia in [...] Just thought I might mention that I have an article on Quaker samplers from the Ackworth School in the latest edition (#65) of Inspirations Magazine. Not that I have seen the eventuating article yet… I asked them to send my copy to me in Sydney, not knowing at the time, how good or bad the [...] This morning I was catching up with Mary Corbet’s Needle’nThread, where she revisited an older post of hers on society silk. This was because the author of a book and expert on the subject, Donna Cardwell, contacted her regarding the post. In her comment, Donna mentioned that there were many different types of silk thread [...] This is a recreated post, following my accidental deletion of the whole blog… Today I went with Jacqui to see textiles in Addis. We started off by heading to the textile area on the road to Entoto, which is the mountain to the north of Addis. In Addis, the shops are set out in an [...] |
.jpg)
White Threads is the blog of Yvette Stanton, the author, designer, publisher behind Vetty Creations quality needlework books and embroidery products.
You can see turn-the-page previews of my books at
|
|||
|
Copyright © 2012 Yvette Stanton - All Rights Reserved |
||||
