Back for the moment to Chapter 10 where I took a few of the designs created from chapts 5 and 6 and translated them into embroideries principally using the stitches featured in this module eg. couching, metallic threads.
I looked at 3 starch paste designs and 2 designs from the shisha chapters. The design is first followed by the stitching.
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| 10.1a |
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| 10.1b |
The background was made using a mixture of bias cut rouleaux and strips of metallic shears, couched down. Clusters of whipstitch were scattered about using green in the bobbin. Cords made on the machine were couched down last.
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| 10.2a |
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| 10.2b |
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| 10.2c |
A woven pattern was made using dyed silk dupion strips edged with couched cords as the background. Gold and copper threads were stitched on top in loose whip stitch.
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| 10.3a |
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| 10.3b |
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| 10.3c |
Background is dyed homespun with cablestitched circles. Green wool roving needlefelted through from the back to make the circle patterns less distinct. The white 'needlefelt' effect came from the stiff interfacing backing embellished through in the process. Spirals of copper mesh were couched down with free motion whip stitch using metallic thread in the bobbin.
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| 10.4a |
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| 10.4b |
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| 10.4c |
Background was black boiled wool for texture. Twisted dyed perle cords were couched down using black thread, densely in places to break up the 'lines'. Scattered whipstitch in black with yellow in bobbin. Copper mesh couched down, black thread.
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| 10.5a |
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| 10.5b |
Stitched on a background of black wool again, the coiled shapes were cable stitched from the back using different thicknesses of white, yellow perle and copper metallic threads.
