Embroidery, design and creativity: a vicar's wife and her vocation
After researching and choosing my Pre-Raphaelite muse, The next job was to find a way of stitching a portrait that would be somewhere between a photograph and a painting – a sort of augmented reality – with shading and textures that added to the picture and did no become jumbled, blocky or busy. Materials I …
Continue reading “Jane Morris Blackwork part 2: stitching a portrait”
Blackwork is a counted thread technique that was popular in Elizabethan times. It is traditionally worked with black threads over white linen, in detailed repeating patterns or textures. it made a good adornment for collars and cuffs in times when lace was an expensive luxury. however, the fashion caught on, and there is even a …
