Spanish whitework

Thanks for the comments on the blog yesterday. It was interesting to see that everyone agreed with the article I linked to. You don’t have to agree, you know. 😉 I have seen other comments elsewhere where people definitely did not agree! Thanks for sharing your thoughts. It was lovely to read them.

Today’s post we move on to the final of the images I will share with you of the embroideries that Irene loaned to me. This last one is a cloth from Spain.

The work is done on a cloth that is quite lightweight and very fine. The drawn thread work has borders of stepped satin stitch blocks. Threads are cut and removed, and then the resulting mesh is re-worked with a dove’s eye filling.

Some years ago we were in Seville in Spain and visited a small regional museum. We saw some amazing whitework embroidery there. So fine, so detailed and so beautiful. There is a very strong tradition of whitework embroidery in Spain, though as with the embroidery I shared from South America, some of it is not necessarily in styles unique to the area. Whitework is loved the world over, and some of the styles are loved and worked the world over.