This example is taken from: Kroos, R. (1970), Niedersachsische Bildstickereien des Mittelaters, Berlin: Deutscher Verlag fur Kunstwissenschaft
The original embroidery is done in white linen on white linen. I used red cotton, because I'm still familiarizing myself with the stitches. Cotton is a bit easier to find here, and red thread is easier to distinguish from the background fabric
So, here is what I have done. Click on a picture to enlarge. (The pictures were taken on an autumn day with changing weather, so the light is a bit different in each picture)
Step 1: draw dots on the fabric. Each dot is one interlacing stitch
Step 2: make the 'skeleton stitches'
Step 3: the inner part of the square is embroidered separately. It took me a lot of time to find that out... :-)
Step 4: all the "skeleton stitches' are in place
Step 5: start lacing
Step 6: the inner part of the square is laced separately
Step 7: Yeah! The figures are not exactly parallel, but in the original 14th century work, it seems a bit shaky too (see enlarged photocopy in step 1 and picture above)
4 comments:
Lovely, Machteld! I really need to try this. :)
Have you seen Embroideries & Samplers from Islamic Egypt by Marianne Ellis? It has pictures of one or two pieces that use this stitch. Most of the examples are pattern darning, though.
Thanks!
The book sounds interesting, let's see if i can find it.
It seems that this stitch is also frequently used in modern embroidery from India, where it it called Sindhi stitch or kutchwork.
Here are some nice photos of this style:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/74421406@N00/449552705/in/set-72157594491586942/
this looks very nice! an afwul lot of work though :-)
Thanks!
I understand the logic of it now, so I can work a bit quicker. Still, embroidery is slow and meditative work (one of the things I like about it). It takes me about an hour to finish one sequence
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