...again - embroidery of my good friend Lady Gunhild von Brunswik (Germany, Hamburg) :)
best regards
Racaire
Showing posts with label blackwork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blackwork. Show all posts
Sunday, 18 January 2009
Sunday, 7 September 2008
Embroidery - Lady Gunhild von Brunswik
...my gentle friend Gunhild (a member of the shire Aventiure - Germany / Hamburg) allowed me to take photos of her embroidery projects during my stay in Hamburg this weekend and also to share this photos with you - please visit my flickr account to see all photos I made of her work.
Best regards
Racaire
Best regards
Racaire
Saturday, 4 August 2007
Ingrid's blackworked collar and cuffs
Hello again. I finished the set of collar and cuffs that I was embroidering for my friend Ingrid, and I thought I should share the results here with you.
I am using a linen ground fabric which (by happy chance) is an even weave fabric. This is the best kind as it makes the geometric patterns nice and squared like they are supposed to be. The thread I've been using is Gütermans silk sewing thread, and each stitch is taken over two threads of my ground fabric. I am using Holbein stitch (also called double running stitch), which makes a single unbroken line in two passes of the running stitches. So the entire embroidery is reversible - save for a few less than perfect anchorings of my thread.
The pattern is one drafted by Viscountess Helwig Ulfsdotter from a photo in Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd which I had saved from one of her classes. As always there are adjustments to be made at the edges of the embroidery and for the collar I closed the two rows of embroidery up in as seamless a way as possible at either edge. Since the cuffs are made up of a single row of my pattern I let those ends curl back in on itself to prevent too much white space happening.
Finally, here are photos of the finished embroidery. (Click for large versions)
I am using a linen ground fabric which (by happy chance) is an even weave fabric. This is the best kind as it makes the geometric patterns nice and squared like they are supposed to be. The thread I've been using is Gütermans silk sewing thread, and each stitch is taken over two threads of my ground fabric. I am using Holbein stitch (also called double running stitch), which makes a single unbroken line in two passes of the running stitches. So the entire embroidery is reversible - save for a few less than perfect anchorings of my thread.
The pattern is one drafted by Viscountess Helwig Ulfsdotter from a photo in Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd which I had saved from one of her classes. As always there are adjustments to be made at the edges of the embroidery and for the collar I closed the two rows of embroidery up in as seamless a way as possible at either edge. Since the cuffs are made up of a single row of my pattern I let those ends curl back in on itself to prevent too much white space happening.
Finally, here are photos of the finished embroidery. (Click for large versions)
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