The forehead cloth is almost done. Â Using linen thread I hand stitched a narrow whip stitch hem around all the edges of the cloth, and then am sewing the straps using a whip stitch over the folded edge. Â Once they are both done I will sew them to the forehead cloth and it will be
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I have finished the embroidery on my blackwork forehead cloth. In the next week I will be turning it into an actual garment piece. It is flat silk on linen, and the design is my own creation. Elizabethan English style freehand blackwork embroidery. In the photos I have included detail shots of the front and back.
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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. Â The design is my own creation. Â 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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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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Progress on the blackwork embroidered forehead cloth. I have now done approximately one-and-one-half repetitions of the pattern, out of roughly eight total.
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I have made a little progress on the blackwork embroidered forehead cloth. I am working it almost entirely in stem stitch and running stitch.
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I have started work on a new embroidery project, based on Elizabethan English historic pieces. It’s a forehead cloth which I am blackwork embroidering.
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