![\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282048095056345714\"](\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_7t90_05oQVE\/SU2awchcunI\/AAAAAAAAAJw\/axMuSoBkPnA\/s320\/ladder-back-stitch-braid.JPG\")
<\/a>So what is it? Well, with lots of careful studying, that would have of course been so much better in person, looking at the actual piece, and not a photo of it; and with my needle and thread in hand, I think I’ve sorted it out.<\/p>\nIt appears to be a variation (possibly) on ladder stitch (aka ceylon stitch), with the ‘rungs’ of the ladder back stitched so that they are grouped together in twos.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure that it is all plain and simple ladder stitch\/ceylon stitch (some parts DO appear to be, but other parts don’t), because in parts the stitches seem wider and more interlaced than that. So what I propose it is in some parts, is like a heavy chain stitch in that each subsequent stitch goes under two<\/b> of the previous stitches, rather than just one as you would have in broad (or reverse) chain stitch. Of course, I’m quite prepared to be wrong on that. Actually I’m quite undecided about whether it is normal ladder stitch or a variation…<\/p>\n
I’m sorry that I don’t have a close-up photo of the original to show you. Perhaps if you have the book, you can take a look yourself and see what you think. I’d love some other opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ok, I’m going to be a little controversial here, or maybe just show my ignorance… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I have been looking at the front cover of a book that I own “Three Hundred Years of Embroidery 1600-1900: Treasures from the Collection of the Embroiderers’ Guild of Great Britain” by Pauline Johnstone. On the front cover it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elizabethan-embroidery","category-embroidery-stitches","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282048096844162498\"](\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_7t90_05oQVE\/SU2awjLspcI\/AAAAAAAAAJ4\/9NSyvh4IzGs\/s1600-h\/three-hundred-years.JPG\")
<\/a>I have been looking at the front cover of a book that I own “Three Hundred Years of Embroidery 1600-1900: Treasures from the Collection of the Embroiderers’ Guild of Great Britain” by Pauline Johnstone. On the front cover it shows a close up of a panel owned by the Embroiderers’ Guild, that is mentioned as being possibly a coif. According to the information inside the book, this piece has the accession number EG 79-1982.<\/p>\n![here<\/a> and](\"http:\/\/www.elizabethancostume.net\/headwear\/pics\/coif5.jpg\"){kind=link}