Foiling, printing, stamping and combining flowers with fabric techniques

I have been poking about the net digging up a little information on surface design techniques for textiles. Here are few links I have dug up. Ruth Issett has provided instructions on using oil and wax crayons on fabric in Make your Mark use Markal Paintstiks to create rich surfaces …

A mystery piece

Linda at Chloe’s place is trying to date and track down information about a particularly interesting piece of embroidery she found in her latest museum trawl. Linda does catalogue work at her local museum and has turned up this interesting mystery piece Do check it out and see if you …

New Needlework discussion group

Katie of Katie’s Place has set up a new needlework Yahoo discussion group, Stitching Post . Here is a little from the front page This is the place hand embroiderers and fiber artists of all persuasions can come to do nothing but talk about stitching. We welcome those who have …

Blueprints, Goldwork and problems with comments!

I found this article by Valerie Campbell-Harding on creating Blueprints on fabric . I am sure as a technique many quilt and fabric postcard artists will find it interesting. The article is hosted by Stitch Magazine which is produced the (UK)Embroiderers Guild In the same magazine is a sampler by …