Let´s work together

Remember Lady Sahra and her beautiful new hood (pictures send here at Sunday, 4 May 2008)? Here are some pictures about one of her last projects. This is a purse made for her 14^th century wedding dress. The model is from V&A Museum’s book about their textile collection, embroidery in Britain from 1200 to 1750. The model is a detail of the embroidered mittens from late 16^th century or early 17^th century. The model was chosen because it looked so nice and it looked like it can be made by silk and bead embroidery. I have helped her little bit with the outlines.

Sahra´s new hood

Sahra is a member of Aarnimetsä Embroidery Guild, and she has made a marvellous hood. I only helped with posting ;) - Eilgri

Sahra:

I had a small piece of nicecoloured wool, so I made a hood embroidered with few decorations.

Two horses are originally from a piece of whalebone that was used to iron seems, the original piece is in National Museum in London (I think).

I drew the model on silkpaper and sow it on fabric using thin white thread. Then I did the embroidering and took the white thread away.

ALL the thread in decorations is thin wool, dyed with plants from Finnish nature! No, not me, I know an old lady who was a biology teacher and has a private arboretum... she makes wonderful colours!

In horses I tried the Bayeux tapestry´s stich for the first time, as you can see...

Still, I´m pleased to present this work to you, the hood looks actually very nice : )

And of course the hood is all handmade.

Yours

Sahra, Aarnimetsä