I have been poking about the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles housed on VADS which is hosted by Goldsmiths College, University of London.The collection houses images from Constance Howard’s Study Collection. Make your self a cuppa settle back and enjoy browsing these textiles. I particularly enjoyed this …
Wiehler Magazine is a new publication published free by the Wiehler Gobelin Company. The magazine is available in both German and English. Don’t miss it as this first issue contains some excellent articles. The highlight, for me, was a piece on the German Sampler Museum but for some readers I …
Settle back for a bit of a chat and a cuppa. I am in a mood to ramble this morning. I have been thoroughly enjoying what has been going on as a result of the TAST challenge. I am constantly amazed at the variety of ideas and work that is …
The other day Penny of Back Valley Seasons wrote a post about her Grandmothers sampler which made me poke around the net to see if there were any Australian needlework samplers were online. The powerhouse museum has a sampler worked by Isabel Buist (1839) at age 9. As the blurb …
In the personal Library of Stitches class students are discussing creating their own covers for the lessons and I thought I would post images of two folders I have covered in samplers. Even thought both have beads on them they have not lost any which I find surprising as I …
I received an email from Bhavani of Needlecraft who discovered a great site about Lagartera, a Spanish form of embroidery. This site is in Spanish so you will need to translate it. I used Google’s translating service and spent a good while exploring the site. Spanish Embroidering History And Tradition …
If you go to the Old Sturbridge Village site and investigate their Online Database (in the Collections section found via the side bar) you will discover that they have listed 70 items in their Sampler and needlework collection. There are some great samplers. Each illustration is accompanied by a good …
