Most of the websites I’ve seen recommend trim to embellish bliauts. Is this because it better replicates what was used or because it’s easier than embroidery? I have some trim that has a good pattern, but I also have some good patterns for my computerized embroidery machine. Which one is …
I am working on my bliaut, and finally realized I am never going to embroider the sleeves like I want to. I was thinking of quilting a band and attaching it instead. I was thinking of something along the lines of the border pattern on this manuscript http://www.aemma.org/onlineResources/manesse/manesseHome.htm Isabeau Eagdyth …
(original subject line: Re: Re: Thanks all) I applaud the embroidery! I have no intention of learning how to weave – I don’t need any more hobbies in this grand huge hobby of ours. I embroider, love it and plan to put that machine made stuff out of business (no …
I am looking for information about orfrois. Were plain bands woven then decorated? Was it strips of fabric that was embroidered before being sewn onto fabric? Or was it embroidery that was cut off of worn out clothing, the sewn onto a new piece? I am interested because I want …
I know commercial trim isn’t authentic but I have no one around who can embroider or teach me how to. I found this trim and I was wondering if it is a periodish pattern before I buy it. There are light blue diamond outlines going lengthwise with a dark blue …
I am also interested in band loom weaving, and card weaving. (I have an inkle loom as well, but my research shows its use to be very, very late period, if at all.) It’s claimed that the modern tabletop inkleloom wasn’t invented till last century, but a kind of floor …
I just finished reading “A History of Western Embroidery” by Mary Eirwen Jones, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1696 ISBN # 289796555, 159 pages, 85 photographic images on plates, some color. A very interesting easy to read book that covers European embroidery from antiquity to modern day, with most of the emphasis on …
I know there are some pics of 12th C embroidery patterns on the files page for this group, but I found some more drawings of embroidered bands on the internet last week. Now that I am back on my own computer, I can’t find them anymore. Does anyone have a …
