This detail is cluster of vintage and modern buttons Placement and Foundation Fabric: The cluster sits of a crochet doiley which covers part of pieces 7, 1, 3, and 9. What is the back story? This regularly published series aims to illustrate and document the hand embroidered seams, embellishments and …
This is a row of Cretan stitch, which has been worked fairly close together and whipped down the central spine. Thread: The Cretan stitch is worked in a hand dyed cotton which is about the same thickness and weight as perle 8. It has been whipped with a Madeira metallic thread Fabric: This section of the …
Stitches: This seam is embellished with 3 buttons that sit on half buttonhole wheels , between them are two pistol stitches which have a seed bead at the base. Threads: The Buttonhole wheels are worked in hand dyed silk and pistol stitches are hand dyed cotton. Placement and Foundation Fabric: This seam …
This section is once again actually two bands. The first is a row of fly stitch, the second is whipped fly stitch. Threads: The first row of fly stitch is worked in a hand dyed mercerised cotton, the second is a soft hand dyed soft Danish cotton which feels and works up in a …
Tilleke Schwarz has updated her website. If you have not encountered her work before do check it out as she is a Dutch contemporary embroiderer who draws with thread. Her stitchery is employed as a graphic mark which is an approach you do not see often. In all her pieces …
Stitches: This crazy quilt detail is made up by varying the length of the arms on Palestrina stitch. I added a seed bead at the end of each bar. Thread: DMC perle thread #5. Placement and Foundation Fabric: This seam is between piece 4 and piece 2 on the diagram I used …
This is a line of closed buttonhole stitch Thread: A hand dyed wool Fabric: This section of the sampler is worked on tea towel linen which is not quite an even weave. Dyes: Procion cold water dyes for the wool Size: The band sampler is 15 cm (6 inches) wide …
