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On the Cover:
A knot garden design
stitched with gold and
silk threads,
adapted by
Linn Skinner from a sixteenth-
century pattern.
Silver gilt antique needlework
tools courtesy of Loene
McIntyre,
Fort Collins,
Colorado.
Photograph by Joe Coca.
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Threadwork from the East
Dolores Bausum shares some favorite textile treasures from her travels
to China and India.
By Dolores B. Bausum
The Liturgical Textiles of the Order of the
Golden Fleece
The vestments and paraments commissioned circa l425–l440 by
Philip the Good, third duke of Burgundy, for his private chapel
and now in the collection of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum,
are among the finest
examples of European embroidery ever made.
By Ricky Clark
The Hair Workers of Sweden
Nineteenth-century hårkullor, “hair workers,” from
Våmhus traveled throughout Europe and the United States to
market their craft, earning as much as forty times the average yearly
wage in rural Sweden. People commissioned keepsakes such as jewelry,
hair bands, and watch chains made of braided hair. Today, the Swedish
association of hair workers is actively promoting the craft.
By Nancy Bush
Jerusha Pitkin’s Embroidered Coat of Arms
This piece would have symbolized the prominence of a wealthy New
England family in mid-eighteenth-century Colonial America, but the
Pitkin coat of arms was never completed. The maker’s descendants
carefully preserved the unfinished embroidery in its frame along
with many skeins of silk and metallic thread. Differing stitching
styles and threads suggest that other family members may have attempted
to complete it.
By Lynne Zacek Bassett
Parsi Trade and Chinese Gara Embroidery
Embroidered crepe de Chine saris of Chinese origin called garas
were an important part of a flourishing trade between Chinese artisans
and Indian Parsi merchants in the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries.
By Brinda Gill
Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Collars
and Cuffs:
Beautiful and Necessary
While wealthy Americans wore expensive European laces, middle-class
women of more modest means made cotton collars and cuffs in crochet,
knitting, tatting, needle lace, and whitework to keep up with the
changing fashions of the mid-l800s.
By Nicole H. Scalessa
Things
to Make
A Goldwork Pattern to
Stitch
Smooth Passing gold is couched with silk thread onto 40-count silk
gauze in this elegant design stitched by Linn Skinner, which she
adapted from a woodblock in Peter Quentel’s Ein New Kunstlich
Modelbuchen, published in Cologne, Germany, in 1527.
Point D’Eglantier Collar to Crochet
Nicole H. Scalessa adapted the design for this lace collar crocheted
with fine cotton thread from a pattern that originally appeared
in the June 1854 issue of Frank Leslie’s Gazette of Fashion.
Stitch in Time
The Vandyke Stitch
Deanna Hall West
A Celtic Knot Band Sampler to Stitch
Traditional motifs from English band samplers are combined with
four Celtic knot motifs in this original sampler designed by Kandace
Thomas and stitched by Deanna Hall West.
A Purse to Bead or Cross-Stitch
Donna Yuen adapted the design for this purse from one published
in the January 1903 issue of Corticelli Home Needlework magazine.
The rose and paisley motifs may be worked with floss alone or cross-stitched
with seed beads. Stitched by Anita Forfang.
A Flower Basket Brooch to Embroider with Silk
Ribbon
Marie Alton used traditional and custom ribbon embroidery stitches
to create this delightful silk floral bouquet.
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