4/10/2024 0 Comments Medieval embroidery patterns free![]() I’m thinking I should try a 100% silk too… although I don’t really like the 100% silk options at my local needlework store… they look good for the “painting with silk” style but I’m really skeptical regarding their suitability for my purposes *pout* (Of course, the thread I like best right now is the most expensive one. Although I’m contemplating adding a couple more thread types… I’ve been playing with 100% wool threads and 50%-50% wool and silk. Why can’t there be a nice useful Museum of London book on embroidery fragments from medieval finds? Such a book would be soooooo nice!!Īnyway, soon I’ll post pictures of my test pieces – I’ve got 3 of the 4 done. Granted my embroidery library is not up to the standards of my general costuming library… Is there some obvious source I should be consulting? Right now my best source seems to be the articles from the West Kingdom Needleworker’s Guild and those are decidedly tertiary, even if very useful. So many things I don’t know (and they’re things that I don’t even know where to start looking for answers! *frustration!*) None of my embroidery books really talk about pre-renaissance embroidery much, or when they do its wall hangings and church alter cloths… I have trouble translating those to garments if nothing else the designs on the sculptures are NOTHING like those story-telling images. Plus – does the tension wear out after awhile? I mean, I know linen stretches, and I certainly have to adjust the tension on my hoop every hour or so…)Īrrrg. How would the sew-to-the-frame option work for long strips of fabric? (The sleeve embroidery is gonna be about 2 yards per sleeve – too long to build a frame to accommodate the entire length. I didn’t have much luck with the modern rolling frame I got – didn’t keep the tension on the fabric at all. I’m currently playing with pure chain stitch… which is much easier to document earlier and elsewhere… but at least there’s an example of it being used on a garment! (OK, so it’s the linen tunic of a 7th century Frankish queen, Saint Bathilde… which is totally irrelevant to a 12th century bliaut… but at least it exists.)Ĥ) How was the fabric kept taut for the embroidery? By hand? Embroidery frames? What style? I’m pretty sure my preferred hoop frames are NOT medieval. I’m most interested in the third quarter of the 12th century (obviously) but I actually haven’t found much of any answers to the following questions for the pre-renaissance period:ģ) What style of embroidery is really appropriate for Paris circa 1150? OK, I’ve whined about this problem before. ![]() Unfortunately I am having a lot of trouble finding the information I want on early medieval embroidery for garments. ( Plus I have no idea how to do card weaving, so my ability to judge feasibility is quite deficient.)Īnyway, to cut a long story short I decided to trim my bliaut with embroidery. I suppose both of those could be addressed using card weaving or something like that… but all the examples I’ve seen of those are quite bulky - great for belts, less so for dress trimming. Also… I haven’t seen trim recently that has the right decorative feel vis-à-vis the design. I’m not sure I can explain why, it’s something about having to finesse the straight trim into the neckline the design on the trim doesn’t adjust to the curves or the keyhole even if you get the trim itself to lie neatly. ![]() However, embroidery adds such BLING – plus, I’ve never seen anyone do really dense embroidery as decoration on a bliaut – usually trim is used for that effect… and I just don’t like the way trim looks. Yes, I know, my definitions are skewed, but I figure I’ll need to do a lot of testing regarding the cut/construction of the bliaut… sooooo… the embroidery was supposed to be relatively uncomplicated – just time consuming. So, I thought I’d do the easy stuff first: the embroidery. SbuchlerSo much for sticking with the 15th century this year: I’m back to playing with the bliaut thing (mainly because I’ve slowly been putting my project binder together for my unfinished/unstarted projects and the bliaut page with the associated fabric has really been inspiring me! :-) ).
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