Sometimes a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.<\/p>\n
Last night and this morning I’ve been poring over the many photos I took on my trip to Mystery Country earlier this year. I’ve been trying to figure out the counting of some stitches. I knew a little about some of these stitches already from previous embroidery that I have done. Stitches often span cultures and what is used in one traditional embroidery can also be used in another, but often in a different way. I made some assumptions based on what I already knew.<\/p>\n
This morning I have had several “OH!!!” moments when I have finally looked close enough at the photos and counted properly and learned that my assumptions about the counting of these stitches was WRONG for this style of embroidery.<\/p>\n
What a good time to find these things out!<\/p>\n
Again it cements in my mind what an important thing it is to go to the primary source to learn. A trip to the location the embroidery comes from, to see historical examples, is something that cannot be substituted. I have gained SO MUCH from my trip, including an understanding of the culture from which the embroidery comes, a sense of place for it, but most importantly, highly technical understanding of the stitches and their use from seeing THE REAL THING.<\/p>\n
There is nothing like seeing the real thing to blast away assumptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sometimes a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.<\/p>\n
Last night and this morning I’ve been poring over the many photos I took on my trip to Mystery Country earlier this year. I’ve been trying to figure out the counting of some stitches. I knew a little about some of these stitches already from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,39,29,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-embroidery-stitches","category-ethnic-embroidery","category-historical-embroidery","category-whitework","category-writing-books","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996","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=6996"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7001,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996\/revisions\/7001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}