[h-cost] RE: Embroidery Question
If you're working with velvet and gold thread dont even consider embroidering with a hoop or anything but a large scroll-type of embroidery frame. Trust me on this, as I've done extensive historical embroideries in real metal. Sorry guys, but the hoop or any other type is simply a compromise of your materials and skills and the quality you will achieve as a result. You can appliqué, yes. It's a completely historical and acceptable method of doing any type of embroidery. However, if you wish the embroidery to be done directly to the fabric, then the fabric on the frame is the way to go. Mark out your fabric with the garment pieces, transfer your embroidery patterns and then stretch on the frame. For the type of frame to use you can view a reproduction frame on our website. The URL is in the tagline. If you want further information, contact me. Regards, Lorina Five Rivers Chapmanry purveyors of quality hand-crafted cooperage, embroidery supplies; fine, original textile, pen and ink, and watercolour art. Now available: Recipes of a Dumb Housewife, by Lorina Stephens 519-799-5577 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.5rivers.org No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.463 / Virus Database: 269.5.9/773 - Release Date: 4/22/2007 8:18 PM ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
RE: [h-cost] RE: Embroidery Question
And if you appliqué, it's easier to remove and reuse when the foundation garment dies. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Five Rivers Chapmanry Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 3:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [h-cost] RE: Embroidery Question If you're working with velvet and gold thread dont even consider embroidering with a hoop or anything but a large scroll-type of embroidery frame. Trust me on this, as I've done extensive historical embroideries in real metal. Sorry guys, but the hoop or any other type is simply a compromise of your materials and skills and the quality you will achieve as a result. You can appliqué, yes. It's a completely historical and acceptable method of doing any type of embroidery. However, if you wish the embroidery to be done directly to the fabric, then the fabric on the frame is the way to go. Mark out your fabric with the garment pieces, transfer your embroidery patterns and then stretch on the frame. For the type of frame to use you can view a reproduction frame on our website. The URL is in the tagline. If you want further information, contact me. Regards, Lorina Five Rivers Chapmanry purveyors of quality hand-crafted cooperage, embroidery supplies; fine, original textile, pen and ink, and watercolour art. Now available: Recipes of a Dumb Housewife, by Lorina Stephens 519-799-5577 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.5rivers.org No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.463 / Virus Database: 269.5.9/773 - Release Date: 4/22/2007 8:18 PM ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] RE: Embroidery Question
I recently cobbled together something in a pinch that worked. I was appliqueing an embroidery onto silk velvet, and because of the shape of the garment and the position of the applique, it had to be framed in order to be managed. I wasn't at home so didn't have access to my supply of stretcher frames (what I have always called a slate frame, which was a new term to me) So I went out to the local WalMart and bought a really cheap wooden picture frame and a box of large head thumb tacks. I wiggled the tacks through the weave (I found out the hard way this particular fabric liked to pull if not treated nicely) and tacked the garment into place on the frame just barely hard enough to work on, making sure the tack didn't press into the pile too much, pinned down the applique, worked then removed it from the frame after I was finished. Yes, I had a few pinholes, but they are fading now that I am working on something else on the garment and the fibres are slipping back into place. Not optimal, but it accomplished the goal. Kathy Ermine, a lion rampant tail nowed gules charged on the shoulder with a rose Or barbed, seeded, slipped and leaved vert (Fieldless) On a rose Or barbed vert a lion's head erased gules. It’s never too late to be who you might have been. -George Eliot Tosach eólais imchomarc. - Questioning is the beginning of knowledge. http://www.sengoidelc.com/node/131 Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
