{"id":8819,"date":"2017-02-27T08:03:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T21:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=8819"},"modified":"2017-10-24T16:45:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T05:45:47","slug":"wool-allergies-and-embroidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2017\/02\/27\/wool-allergies-and-embroidery\/","title":{"rendered":"Wool allergies and embroidery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking about a new (to me) thought the other day. How does a wool allergy affect people who enjoy embroidery? Some embroidery styles, such as crewel embroidery, are done almost exclusively in wool thread. What does this mean for people with wool allergies? Or even just people who have sensitive skin and can&#8217;t stand the prickliness of some wool?<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a wool allergy? How does that affect your embroidery? Does it mean that if you see a style of embroidery that uses wool, that you immediately think &#8220;well, that&#8217;s not for me!&#8221;, or do you think &#8220;I wonder how I can adapt that to make it work for me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Have you substituted cotton threads for the wool ones that are supposed to be used? Has that formed a satisfactory solution for you? What other ways have you found around the problem?<\/p>\n<p>I suppose with books like Hazel Blomkamp&#8217;s &#8220;Crewel Twists&#8221; that people with wool allergies can find a way into crewel embroidery, using yarns that are not wool. That&#8217;s possibly been really helpful.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/wools.jpg\" alt=\"Wool embroidery thread\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8820\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/wools.jpg 1800w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/wools-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/wools-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/wools-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/wools-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/wools-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>For people where it is not an allergy, but just a skin sensitivity issue, I wonder if using soft wools such as Bella Lusso or Renaissance yarns, rather than the slightly more prickly ones such as Appletons or to a lesser extent, Fine D&#8217;aubusson, would help?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it was just a new thought for me, and one that I explored a bit in my mind, so I thought I&#8217;d ask people for whom it may be an issue. What are your thoughts? Is this an issue for you? How do you deal with it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking about a new (to me) thought the other day. How does a wool allergy affect people who enjoy embroidery? Some embroidery styles, such as crewel embroidery, are done almost exclusively in wool thread. What does this mean for people with wool allergies? Or even just people who have sensitive skin and can&#8217;t [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-white-threads","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819","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=8819"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8824,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819\/revisions\/8824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}