{"id":4853,"date":"2012-05-25T06:37:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T20:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=4853"},"modified":"2012-05-25T06:37:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T20:37:51","slug":"schwalm-and-no12-broder-cotton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2012\/05\/25\/schwalm-and-no12-broder-cotton\/","title":{"rendered":"Schwalm and No12 broder cotton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I wondered if the coral knot stitches on the Schwalm embroidery that I am working perhaps would have been done with coton a broder No 12 &#8211; if it still existed! I asked Luzine Happel, the designer of the project, about this and this was her reply:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was not used for Schwalm. Mostly No. 20 used is for the Coral Knots. This seemed too thin for me for the coarse linen and so I took No. 16.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago the companies canceled the No. 20 threads. There was a big scream in the stitcherworld and a lot of teachers approached the companies directly with their protest. And some time later it was available again. We will see, how long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that interesting that No 12 was not used? I was completely wrong! (I did say that I could be!)<\/p>\n<p>Wonderful news that the direct protests of stitchers and stitching teachers caused the thread companies to reverse their decision about No 20 thread. I hope the threads stay with us for a long time yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I wondered if the coral knot stitches on the Schwalm embroidery that I am working perhaps would have been done with coton a broder No 12 &#8211; if it still existed! I asked Luzine Happel, the designer of the project, about this and this was her reply:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was not used for [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-embroidery-stitches","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4855,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853\/revisions\/4855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}