Featuring another great project: Racaires "Weiberlisten" Wallhanging

Unfortunatelly for the newsletter for this summer months I run out of artisans and projects which I could feature - I hope after the summer time I will have again enough projects which I may feature - and therefore I decided to feature an "old" project of mine and I admit it's one of my favourite projects:

Racaires Weiberlisten Wallhanging

You can find more photos of this project, including my fight against the moths here: "Wallhanging Project"

I am also a member of the "Dragon's Needle Embroidery Guild", which is a guild of the Kingdom of Drachenwald within the SCA and I am the Guild Head of the Dragon's Needle Embroidery Guild and also the local Guild Head for the Frankmark region. I am living in the beautiful lands of Knights Crossing. :)

And some words for you about the project:

My inspiration for this project is the Weiberlisten Teppich/ Maltererteppich - a beautiful medieval wallhanging done in Klosterstich - the only picture which is not inspired/based on this wallhanging ist the last one on the right in the bottom row - this one is inspired by the „Manessische Liederhandschrift“.

It took me about 3 years to complete this Wallhanging and I took pictures of the several steps, which can be found at my blog - Wallhanging Project - including my long fight against the moths and pictures of the Klosterstich repair work.

I also used Klosterstich for this embroidery and the fine wool threads from http://www.renaissancedyeing.com/ - btw. you can find my Klosterstich handout here.

Featured Artisans of the last months:
May: Jahanaras "woven fabric for the Pennsic Gift Bags"
April: Renikas "embroidered 14th century buttoned dress" in progress
March: Rakonczays "Mars and Silvia" tapestry in progress
February: Honors "Bayeux style tapestry"

padded metal thread embroidery :)

Recently I finished an embroidery for Margaret - I took photos of the several progress stages and posted them all at my blog:

Margarets Commission

The letters are from the book "Calligraphy & Illumination" by Patricia Lovett - "Majuscules which can be used with Gothic Script" (page 73) and the ring is a based on the "Jewish wedding ring from the Erfurt Treasure".

More patches for the wallhanging :)

Petronilla made one more patch for the wallhanging :)

-> her patch for the barony of Knight's Crossing

lovely! :)

More patches for the wallhanging :)

Many thanks to Caterina de la Roverre for this photo of her patch for Griffins Tor :)

More patches for the wallhanging :)

Hilkkas lovely patch for Eplaheimr :)

Thank you very much for submitting the photo for the blog :)

More patches for the wallhanging :)

...and Chrisis lovely patch - she used applique for her patch :)

More patches for the wallhanging :)

...my patch for Uma :)

(Klosterstich and stem stitch for the fish, chain stitch for the laurel wreath and to apply the blue fabric on the white - some buttonhole stitch)

More patches for the wallhanging :)

More lovely patches by Ida :)

Drachenheim and Infimus mons Aureus

(please sroll down a little bit for the patches)

and a lovely bling bling patch for:

Shire of The Emerald Glenn

lovely patches! Thank you very much Ida! :)

More patches for the wallhanging :)

This week I got the lovely patches made by Tamara!!! :)

Thank you very much for taking part in this project - I love your patches! :)

More patches for the wallhanging :)

...and another great patch for the wallhanging done by Mary Verch Thomas:

Link to the patch :)

(it's a link to her photo at facebook - hopefully it works for all of you :)

More patches for the wallhanging :)

More lovely patches for the wallhanging - this time done by Ida from Aarnimetsä:

Kirjomisia.. (Stuff I do while I wacth TV.)

I like them very much :)
...the main text is in Finnish but if you scroll down a little, you will find the English translation... :)
Many thanks Ida! :)

New patch for the "Coat of Arms" wallhanging

This is my contribution, the Coat of Arms for the Barony of Styringheim. Embroidery in black and white silk on black linen.

lovely medieval embroidery... :)

Petit Point bag
Ursprünglich hochgeladen von kiriel

Kiriel shares this beautiful pouch and other lovely embroidered items in her "Textiles" folder on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/papillon_publishing/sets/72157594270878809/

fyi - I already wrote following postings about this pouch - I hope you'll find them useful:

- "Kiriel’s amazing “Textiles” folder on flickr! :)"
http://embroidery.racaire.at/?p=3267

- "Kiriel’s amazing “Textiles” folder on flickr! – addition: guess the embroidery stitches"
http://embroidery.racaire.at/?p=3271

- "Kiriel’s amazing “Textiles” folder on flickr! – addition: guess the embroidery stitches II"
http://embroidery.racaire.at/?p=3292

- "Kiriel rocks! Pouch Detail!!!! :) – I think ‘Long Arm Cross Stitch’ won :)"
http://embroidery.racaire.at/?p=3296

Coat of Arms project - Kingdom Drachenwald badge finished

Petronilla finished another lovely patch for the wallhanging project:

Drachenwald coat of arms

Very lovely! Thank you very much! :)

another interesting link - Textiles from the Cloisters

...another interesting link:

Textiles from the Cloisters

by Lady Sabine Berard (Kingdom of Atlantia)

a new flickr folder - embroidered items found in museums

...yesterday I created a new flickr folder:

Misc. Museums - Embroidery

This folder contains all pictures of embroidered items (pouches, cloaks, wallhangings,...) which I found on display in several museums here in Europe :)

Coat of Arms project - Shire of Aventiure badge finished

Petronilla is very fast and productive - she already finished another lovely patch, this time for:

Shire of Aventiure

lovely! :)

German Brick Stitch Pouch :)

...I finished another German Brick Stitch pouch :)

pattern:
Tristans ‘German Brick Stitch’ pattern
“13th century brick stitch pattern, revised version”

...and for the seam finishing please follow this link -> Medieval Silkwork blog - “Finishing the seams of 14th/15th century pouches” - http://m-silkwork.blogspot.com/2007/04/finishing-seams-of-14th15th-century_29.html <-

You can find the complete progress and more pics at my blog:
http://embroidery.racaire.at/?cat=143

Coat of Arms project - Canton of Kaarnemaa badge finished

Petronilla is very productive at the moment :) - she already finished the next patch:

Canton of Kaarnemaa

Great work! :)

Coat of Arms project - Drachenwald patch finished

Hedwig von Simmaningen completed the very first patch with the coat of arms of Drachenwald:



Thank you very much! :)