I have posted a new tutorial, Basics of Opus Anglicanum Embroidery. It outlines the stylistic details that make opus anglicanum embroidery unique, and provides instructions in the basics of how to emulate the style in your own embroidery. It’s an online version of a handout I have created for an opus anglicanum workshop I will be
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The red linen open hood is made from 100% linen fabric, with a linen embroidered scrolling vine pattern, mostly in chain stitch, and it is entirely hand stitched with linen thread. The main seam down the center of the hood is embroidered with fishbone stitch, also using linen thread.
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Immediately after finishing the open hood, I started work on another small embroidery project. This one is a needle book, an addition to my sewing kit so I don’t have to lug jarringly modern looking accessories to events with me. The design is my own, modeled after Viking age great wyrm designs. Each side of the
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This is the project I started over the weekend of Pentathlon. I like to always have some sort of portable project going, so I have something to work on when I would otherwise be sitting around, as I like to keep my hands busy. The driving force behind making it is to help avoid sunburn.
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This is the finished embroidered scissor case, so I will have something pretty to hold my embroidery snips when I’m at events. It is embroidered with perle cotton and six-strand DMC cotton floss, on a cotton canvas base. Embroidery stitches used are stem stitch, wrapped stem stitch, chain stitch, Bayous Tapestry style couching, and padded satin
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The Elizabethan Blackwork Embroidered Forehead Cloth is finished, and has been given its own permanent page on my web site. To view all the research, detailed photos, thoughts, and inspiration, please either visit my documentation article or the project tag. Tag Archives: project-blackwork-forehead-cloth will take you to a continuous blogroll that starts with the documentation article
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The end is finally in sight! This is another entry in the continuing saga of my Elizabethan English style blackwork forhead cloth, embroidered in flat silk on linen. The design is my own creation. I should have the embroidery done any day now, and then I just need to sew the forehead cloth into an
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Further progress on my late 1500’s English style, freehand embroidered, blackwork forehead cloth. It is flat silk on linen.
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I finished the embroidery on the scissor case during the winter holidays. The stitching is entirely done in DMC cotton floss and pearl cotton, on cotton canvas.
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Flat silk on linen. This is how the blackwork forehead cloth looked on Yule. I think I am about halfway done.
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