The last few evenings have been spent poking about the net looking at various Photoshop brushes mainly because I have been designing my own. I found some more great Photoshop brushes online and thought I may as well share the links. Most people require a link back to their site …
There is sometimes a disagreement between lace makers and embroiderers about Needle lace. Lace makers claim it is lace because it is created with no foundation fabric and embroiderers claim it is embroidery because a needle rather than a bobbin is used to make it. Nevertheless it’s a technique that …
This is really a resource for those who own Photoshop. Kelly Gammons of opera floozy has designed and offered free some fantastic Photoshop brushes which you can download, unzip and drop the .abr file in the …/presets/brushes folder of in your Adobe directory. Only your imagination can limit you. Brushes …
Last year I posted a query on this blog about the technique of Sollerosom embroidery which I did not ever get a response to. I was trying to find out more about the technique but had no luck. Thanks to Ethnic Fiber Art the mystery is solved. On the site …
The Indiana University Library has published scans of all 128 plates in the 1922 edition of Oriental costumes: their designs and colors by Max Tilke, (1869-1942). The colour plates in this edition are just delightful as they are all hand drawn. Take a look at this Embroidered Bornu woman’s shirt …
I am still poking about collating together ideas for my Katrina block for the All that Jazz Quilt project. I discovered on Drea Leed’s Elizabethan Costume Page there is a new section devoted to Depictions of Jesters and Fools in Medieval and Renaissance Art . Don’t miss browsing at least …
People can never learn too much about colour and what fascinates me is that it is an area that is always an interesting part of the process. There is always interesting discoveries to made and intriguing contrasts to develop. It’s a constant challenge. I discovered Colour in Needlework by Lucy …
