Beautiful Traced Linen - Embroidery
My earliest memories are of a house with beautifully embroidered linen doyleys being used on the polished wood of furniture under vases. I loved looking at them, and feeling the embroidery, and marvelling at the fact that both sides looked the ... [... more]
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Elizabethan Embroidery or - Embroidery
In the transitory period between the death of Henry VIII and the ascension of Elizabeth 1 to the throne, there had been three rulers in England: Edward VII, Jane Gary, and Mary. During the period of these three rulers, England was in turmoil and ... [... more]
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Recommended Reading
During the middle ages, Embroidery Guilds moved embroidery into a division between "professionals" and "amateurs" and the quality of the work done clearly delineated these categories. That was until the time of the later Tudors and [... more]
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Thread Painting - Embroidery
Thread Painting is an embroidery technique that can be used by both hand and machine embroiderers. In both methods, the technique relies on long, smooth stitches and intricate shading to produce the stunning results. This is also called ... [... more]
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Taking part in a Round Robin - Embroidery
One of the most popular ways embroiderers get together seems to be the Round Robin. Typically, these seem to be mostly cross-stitched, however there is a growing band of stitchers who do samplers, and a new group who do free-style embroidery. ... [... more]
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Embroidered Monograms - Embroidery
One of the major "household" uses for embroidery over the centuries has been to monogram linen. Girls would, over the years, carefully build a hope chest (or glory box) against the day they were married. These chests originally contained the ... [... more]
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Recommended for your Embroidery Bookshelf - Embroidery
It doesn't matter how long you have been stitching, or what your preferred technique is, you can always learn something new. No matter what your experience level, there are some books that you should have on your embroidery bookshelf - whether ... [... more]
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Or Nue Embroidery - Embroidery
Of the many goldwork techniques, Or Nue is one of the most beautiful, and yet most challenging for embroiderers. Or Nue is also called "shaded gold", and this describes the technique exactly. In this style of goldwork, coloured silk thread is .. [... more]
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