Category: Counted Thread
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Blackwork
Featured image: Blackwork shirt by Anja Snihova’ Javornic Definition from Wikipedia: Blackwork, sometimes historically termed Spanish blackwork, is a form of embroidery generally using black thread, although other colors are also used on occasion. Sometimes it is counted-thread embroidery which is usually stitched on even-weave fabric. Traditionally blackwork is stitched in silk thread on white…
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Blackwork by Arlys o Gordon
Featured image: Laurel-Pelican blackworked hatband, with garnet blood drops. Design by maker. DMC cotton on Aida. (Mistress Arlys o Gordon, Rivers Region)a) original patternb) finished band on hat
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Assisi Work by Arlys o Gordon
A selection of voided work (Assisi). (Mistress Arlys o Gordon, Rivers Region) “St. George and the Dragon.” Inspired by the pattern given in Sibmacher’s Modelbuch, Plate LI (1527) and interpreted as Assisi work. That meant turning the photo-positive pattern into a photo-negative. DMC cotton on Aida. Entry: “Dragon Puppies” from Opera Nova Universali, 1546, pg…
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Cross Stitch by Arlys o Gordon
Featured image: Cross stitched Laurel badge on a red field. DMC cotton on Aida. (Mistress Arlys o Gordon, Rivers Region)
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Cross Stitch
Definition from Wikipedia: Cross–stitch is a form of sewing and a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches in a tiled, raster-like pattern are used to form a picture. From Halima al-Rakkasa: This is an example of cross stitch. I challenged with a sampler in pink (later entered in a modern fall fair),…