{"id":5021,"date":"2012-07-16T09:58:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T23:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=5021"},"modified":"2012-07-16T09:58:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T23:58:25","slug":"hungarian-embroidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2012\/07\/16\/hungarian-embroidery\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungarian embroidery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a standing joke with Mary-Anne who runs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stemstitch.com\" title=\"A Stitch in Time, Hobart\" target=\"_blank\">A Stitch in Time<\/a> in Hobart. She repeatedly and mistakenly calls my Portuguese whitework &#8220;Hungarian whitework&#8221;. And then when she&#8217;s feeling particularly silly she&#8217;ll call it Hungarian Folk Dancing. We laugh and both know that she&#8217;s actually referring to Portuguese Whitework. I have no idea how to teach Hungarian folk dancing!<\/p>\n<p>However, it has made me wonder about Hungarian whitework&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>And then, when I was at the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair, I met a lady who was going back to visit Hungary the following week, and told me of the beautiful whitework embroidery that she has seen in Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>So I am intrigued. I know little about Hungarian embroidery, though I have seen Kalocsa embroidery, which is quite colourful. Do any of you wonderful readers know of traditional styles of whitework from Hungary? What regions are they from?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a standing joke with Mary-Anne who runs A Stitch in Time in Hobart. She repeatedly and mistakenly calls my Portuguese whitework &#8220;Hungarian whitework&#8221;. And then when she&#8217;s feeling particularly silly she&#8217;ll call it Hungarian Folk Dancing. We laugh and both know that she&#8217;s actually referring to Portuguese Whitework. I have no idea how [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-ethnic-embroidery","category-whitework","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021","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=5021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5024,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions\/5024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}