{"id":79,"date":"2008-12-04T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=79"},"modified":"2008-12-04T21:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T21:17:00","slug":"experimenting-with-plaited-braid-stitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2008\/12\/04\/experimenting-with-plaited-braid-stitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimenting with plaited braid stitch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past few days, in response to a personal challenge from Mary Corbet of Needle’nThread.com<\/a> I have been trying out plaited braid stitch.<\/p>\n

It is notorious for being a Very Difficult Stitch<\/b>. I’m wondering why… I didn’t find it all that hard.<\/p>\n

I had some basic instructions in Mary Thomas’s Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches<\/i>. They’re not great instructions, and looking at antique examples, I also suspect they are not quite right. So I adapted them, following others’ advice, and got a very pleasing result. <\/p>\n

Then I found that I have a copy of Leon Conrad’s specially devised way of working Plaited Braid Stitch in an old edition of FineLines Magazine<\/i>, so I got to work using them also. It is extremely interesting to note that while Leon’s instructions produce the same result, they are worked from the other end of the stitching. ie what Mary Thomas would consider to be the end, Leon makes his beginning. Really interesting! <\/p>\n

Leon must have spent a LOT of time studying historical examples in museums and playing with a needle and thread to devise his method. I am all in awe. I guess this is akin to what I did when I was at the Ukrainian Museum in New York, trying to work out how the merezhka I was looking at had been done. I understand the amount of work that goes into this sort of sleuthing!<\/p>\n

However, I feel that some of the photography in Leon’s instructions could have been a little better. Sometimes I’m not quite clear on what I am looking at. Never mind – I worked it out! I found Leon’s instructions easier to learn from and that they gave a better result.<\/p>\n

\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276088684856007602\"<\/a>The adapted version of Mary’s is on the left, and Leon’s is on the right.<\/p>\n

I will be including left-handed instructions for plaited braid stitch for my left-handed stitch dictionary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the past few days, in response to a personal challenge from Mary Corbet of Needle’nThread.com I have been trying out plaited braid stitch.<\/p>\n

It is notorious for being a Very Difficult Stitch. I’m wondering why… I didn’t find it all that hard.<\/p>\n

I had some basic instructions in Mary Thomas’s Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-stitches","category-left-handed-embroidery","category-merezhka","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","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=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}