tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85391833737812023682024-03-10T17:49:33.304+00:00Stitching by a Cornish SeashoreA journal of my life, designs and needlework. For more information and to purchase my designs please visit my studio at hands-across-the-sea-samplers.com Nicolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10406422781789740027noreply@blogger.comBlogger292125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539183373781202368.post-34091973450519375632016-07-29T07:40:00.001+01:002016-07-29T07:40:24.857+01:00Fearless Freehand<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A few weeks ago I asked a group of sampler stitchers - "how do <strong>YOU</strong> define freehand embroidery within a counted sampler?"</div>
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There were lots of replies and varying definitions but one thing that did come across was that many who normally work within the safety of a counted chart are a little apprehensive about venturing into "uncharted territory".</div>
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Hands Across the Sea Samplers will shortly be releasing a chart of a beautiful and unusual Scottish sampler that has small freehand motifs. They do not need to be included as the sampler will stand well without them, they could even be cross stitched. However, we want to take the fear out of freehand and for you to be able to stitch these with confidence and enjoyment.</div>
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I have designed a small chart and step-by-step photo trail tutorial for you. Whilst this motif has been made up it incorporates <b>all</b> the actual flowers that are freehand stitched in the Scottish sampler. The tutorial uses the stitches found in the orginal sampler.</div>
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When I first started stitching a freehand design I was a little nervous of drawing a shape onto my linen. Tracing a design has issues with dimensions in relation to the linen count. Without a guide line it is easy for the embroidery to "grow" out of proportion.</div>
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I prefer, where possible, to tack a loose outline with my needle, sketching out the shape in thread. The lines and placement of a motif are easily changed and refined without leaving the fabric marked.</div>
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This is the method we have used for our reproduction and within the sampler's chart there are guide lines for the freehand motifs laid out in the same manner as above . There are close up photographs of each of the stitched freehand motifs within the chart.</div>
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Using the graph above roughly tack out the stems and one flower head. There is no need to count this out exactly - this is freehand. Listen to your needle, she will guide you.</div>
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The sampler's flower stems are made up of short satin stitches but stem stitch would work well if you prefer.</div>
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We do not recommend sewing tightly packed stitches to start - they are hard to unpick if your shape is not right.</div>
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Travel up the stem spacing the stitches out so that you are getting a feel for the shape.</div>
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When you get to the top and you are happy with the shape, work your way back down filling in the stem with the desired coverage. Repeat for the next stem.</div>
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I want my stems to curve and not bend in hard angles. To curve my outline I use a couching stitch to lift my loosely tacked line.</div>
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See how the shape softens.</div>
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Keep repeating the process.</div>
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Until all the stems are stitched.</div>
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Turn over your work.</div>
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Your waste knot and some uncovered tack lines will be showing.</div>
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Clip out the visible tack lines and remove the waste knot. There is no need to secure it. Be careful not to clip out the flower head !</div>
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Turn your work back over and stitch the stamens on the first flower. All you need are two or more straight satin stitches.</div>
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Do not worry about counting out your stitches. Your flowers will be individual, think about the shapes you are hoping to achieve and experiment.</div>
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For the third flower I tacked out the shape of the petals first.</div>
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I then used the same process for the stems to stitch the flower. Make your stitches a little shorter than those on the stem.</div>
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Each of the stamens are formed with a single thread with two passes.</div>
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The tips on the orginal sampler are over one cross stitches. Stitch them slightly on the loose side.</div>
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The next flower is made up of three steps. First stitch the vertical satin stitches. A single thread with two passes.</div>
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Then add the three long horizontal satin stitches and finish with the short diagonal stitches to the outer edges.</div>
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The final stem has a row of hanging flowers.</div>
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Use a tacking stitch to decide on placement.</div>
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Then embroider the flowers with satin stitches.</div>
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The last step is to add the leaves. Leave the leaves until last so that they can be shaped to sit well with the flower heads.</div>
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Hands Across the Sea Samplers hope that you will stitch this small motif and that it takes the fear out of freehand for you. If you have any questions we are here to help. We would enjoy seeing some photos of your stitched motif.</div>
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The Scottish sampler will be released at the end of August and with its autumnal palette will be a perfect project for the Fall.</div>
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Considered to be the most popular colour worldwide, blue has been revered since the time of the Ancient Egyptians who wove strips of indigo-dyed cloth into the borders of plain linen mummy strips.</div>
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Indigo has an unique chemical makeup that allows it to work both as a dye and as a pigment. The Mayans mixed indigo with a clay mineral to produce the color we now call “maya blue”, which they used for paintings on murals, sculptures and ceramics, and which despite the passage of time, still have not faded.</div>
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In Mali, the native indigo plants are more than just a textile dye. They are healing plants that are used to treat wounds, repel insects, relieve pain and chase away bad spirits. </div>
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Traditionally, cloth dyed with its fermented leaves holds a place in every life stage. Women wanting to conceive a child wear a skirt dyed with the fermented leaves to increase their fertility, and when they do conceive, lay their babies down to sleep in indigo-dyed sheets to open their young minds.</div>
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From the day that her son was born, a mother started putting aside resources to create for him a special indigo-dyed shawl called a diisa. They were a lot of work and were worth the same as 10 head of cattle.</div>
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Whilst we take the blue in our embroidery threads and our favourite blue jeans for granted but it was once prized throughout the world. The Greeks called this blue pigment ‘indikon’, meaning a product from India, and this word became indigo in English.</div>
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The earliest example of indigo from Indigofera probably comes from the Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilization (3300 -1300 BC). There are at least 50 different species of Indigofera growing in India.</div>
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In the Northwest region, indigo has been processed into small cakes by peasant producers for many centuries. It was exported through trade routes and reached Europe. Greeks and Romans (300 BC - 400 AD) had small amounts of blue pigment in hard blocks, which they thought was of mineral origin. They considered it a luxury product and used it for paints, medicines and cosmetics.</div>
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In the late 1200s Marco Polo returned from his trips through Asia and described how indigo was not a mineral but in fact was extracted from plants. Small quantities of indigo were available in Europe then, but they were very expensive due to the long land journey required and the levy imposed by traders along the route. Locally grown woad was the main blue dye used in Europe at the time.</div>
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By the late 15th century Vasco da Gama discovered a sea route to China, allowing indigo to be imported directly. Large scale cultivation of indigo started in India and in the 1600s large quantities of indigo were exported to Europe. The cost of indigo dropped considerably and by the end of the 17th century it had virtually replaced woad in Europe. Indigo was often referred to as Blue Gold as it was an ideal trading commodity; high value, compact and long lasting.</div>
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By the 19th century, natural indigo production could no longer meet the demands of the clothing industry, and a search for synthetic indigo started. In 1865, Adolf von Baeyer, a German chemist began working on the synthesis of indigo and in 1897 synthetic indigo was launched. In 1905, Baeyer won the Nobel prize in Chemistry for his work on organic dyes including indigo.</div>
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At the time synthetic indigo was launched, natural indigo production was 19,000 tonnes, and an area of 7,000 square kilometres (a third of the area of Wales) had been dedicated to growing indigo, mainly in India. The much cheaper synthetic indigo quickly superseded natural indigo for commercial dyeing and by 1914 natural indigo production had declined to 1,000 tonnes.</div>
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While indigo traces its roots to India, enslaved Africans carried the knowledge of indigo cultivation to the United States. Colonial planters in the Caribbean grew indigo and transplanted its cultivation when they settled in the colony of South Carolina and North Carolina where people of the Tuscarora confederacy adopted the dying process for head wraps and clothing.</div>
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When Eliza Lucas Pinckney and enslaved Africans successfully cultivated new strains near Charleston it became the second most important cash crop in the colony (after rice) before the American Revolution. It comprised more than one-third of all exports in value.and in the 1700s, the profits from indigo outpaced those of sugar and cotton. At the time of the America revolution, the dollar had no strength, and indigo cakes were used as currency.</div>
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The process of indigo dying is demonstrated in this short video from the the V & A by the Cheepa family, indigo dyers living and working in Kala Dera, Rajasthan.</div>
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Elizabeth (known as Eliza) Lucas was born on December 28, 1722, in Antigua, British West Indies, where she grew up at Poerest, one of her family's three sugarcane plantations on the island. She was the eldest child of Lt. Colonel George Lucas, of Dalzell's Regiment of Foot in the British Army, and his wife Ann.</div>
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Eliza was 16 years old when she became responsible for managing Wappoo Plantation and two other Lucas plantations. From Antigua, ELiza's father sent her various types of seeds for trial on the plantations. They and other planters were eager to find crops for the uplands that could supplement their cultivation of rice. First, she "experimented" with ginger, cotton, and alfalfa. Starting in 1739, she began "experimenting" with cultivating and improving strains of the indigo plant, for which the expanding textile market created demand for its dye. When Colonel Lucas sent Eliza indigofera seeds in 1740, she expressed her "greater hopes" for them, as she intended to plant them earlier in the season. In experimenting with growing indigo in new climate and soil, Lucas also made use of knowledge and skills of enslaved Africans who had grown indigo in the West Indies and West Africa.</div>
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After three years of persistence and many failed attempts, Eliza proved that indigo could be successfully grown and processed in South Carolina. While she had first worked with an indigo processing expert from Montserrat, she was most successful in processing dye with the expertise of an indigo-maker of African descent whom her father hired from the French West Indies.</div>
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Eliza used her 1744 crop to make seed and shared it with other planters, leading to an expansion in indigo production. She proved that colonial planters could make a profit in an extremely competitive market. Due to her successes, the volume of indigo dye exported increased dramatically from 5,000 pounds in 1745-46, to 130,000 pounds by 1748. Before the Revolutionary War, indigo accounted for more than one-third of the total value of exports from the colony.</div>
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For her contributions to South Carolina's agriculture, Eliza Lucas Pinckney was the first woman to be inducted into the South Carolina Business Hall of Fame. President George Washington served as a pallbearer at her funeral at St. Peter's Church, in Philadelphia where she had travelled for treatment.</div>
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Summer is here and the beach in the little cove where I live is starting to get busy. This weekend I spotted someone or rather something that brought memories flooding back from my own childhood - a man chilling in the sunshine wearing a hanky hat. The fashioning of a white handkerchief into headwear by tying knots at the corners became something of a clichéd image of the British male at play in sunny weather.</div>
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A look much lampooned and certainly best forgotten !</div>
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Musing on the "hankie" I started to think of its various different uses. Besides the obvious of blowing one's nose it can be used can be used to hold, wrap and protect.</div>
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One evening in 1913 New York socialite Mary Phelps Jacob was putting on a sheer silk evening gown as she eagerly got ready for a dinner party. She had one small problem, whalebones were visible beneath the sheer silk fabric and were poking out of her corset. With the help of her French maid she created a brassiere from two silk handkerchiefs and some pink ribbon. Soon thereafter she started to sell her silk handkerchief brassieres.</div>
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Textiles help us in a mutiltide of everyday ways. A piece of cloth has so many different uses. Usually we think of a sari simply as a garment but it does much more than cover the body. The loose end that is draped over the body also serves as a handy piece of fabric that can mop the brow and protect the face from dirt and sun. It can be used as a potholder and the end can be tied to hold money and keys in.</div>
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The belted plaid was used not only as a garment, but also as bedding at night, the wearer wrapping himself in it and sleeping directly on the ground.</div>
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The Mexican rebozo and the Guatemalan tzute function as shawls or as carriers of everything from babies to firewood.</div>
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The uses for a scout's neckerchief are endless.</div>
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In the 21st century of the Western world very few of us weave our own cloth and the laborious processes and multiple steps that go into its production are carried out in factories in faraway countries. Textiles play an important role in our lives, they are all around us. We use expressions such as "life hanging by a thread", "moral fibre", "fibre of our being", "cut from the same cloth", "spinning a yarn" and "to cotton on". The historical meanings and significance behind textiles might have faded into the background but there is a rich and interesting story to be told.</div>
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The idea for this post came from seeing a man sporting a hanky hat and coincidentally the word "kerchief" came from two French words: couvrir, which means “to cover,” and chef, which means “head.”</div>
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By the 16th century the kerchief had become known as the handkerchief.</div>
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The Romans waved handkerchiefs in the air at public games, and the drop of a hankie would signal the beginning of the chariot races. The medieval knight would tie a lady’s handkerchief to the back of his helmet as a good luck talisman when jousting.</div>
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Handkerchiefs appeared in Shakespearian plays – Cymbeline, As You Like It, and most memorably Othello, in which a misunderstanding over a handkerchief caused Othello to kill his wife and then himself.</div>
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Handkerchiefs were listed in dowries and bequeathed in wills. The loss of a handkerchief was found recorded in publications as far back as 1665.</div>
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In Persia, they were considered a sign of nobility and were reserved for kings. Aristocrats sitting for their portraits would request that a handkerchief be included in the picture, the more embellished the better, to indicate their status and position.</div>
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The nobles of France began sporting handkerchiefs in the 14th century. These handkerchiefs were items of great beauty - made of silk, often heavily embroidered and were found in many shapes, including circles and triangles. Often these handkerchiefs were scented as protection from the smells resulting from a lack of regular baths and working toilets.</div>
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Considered a symbol of wealth, handkerchiefs became larger and larger, until, in 1785 Louis XVI issued a decree prohibiting anyone from carrying a handkerchief larger than his.</div>
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The handkerchief was used as a way to flirt. It was said that Queen Elizabeth I, who carried handkerchiefs embroidered with gold and silver thread, created a whole vocabulary of hankie gestures for dealing with her staff.</div>
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In addition to carrying for practical purposes, handkerchiefs have long been displayed in the top pocket of men's jackets. Used in this way, they are referred to as a pocket handkerchief or pocket square.</div>
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As a visible fashion item there are a wide variety of ways to fold a pocket square, ranging from the austere to the flamboyant.</div>
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During the depression in the 1930's, a handkerchief was often the only new item a woman could afford enhance her wardrobe. A woman would “change” her outfit by changing her hankie.</div>
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Ladies would embroider colorful flowers, monograms or motifs on their hankies.</div>
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Manufacturers like Burmel and Kimball advertised a handkerchief of the month in Vogue magazine. With the perfection of color-fast dyes, a vast array of cheerful colors allowed artists the freedom to depict everything from flowers to animals to cocktail recipes. There were handkerchiefs to celebrate holidays, birthdays, get well greetings, Mother’s Day, and more, often sold in special gift cards.</div>
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Several years after the war, once fashion began to revive, Balmain, Dior, Rochas and other designers utilized handkerchiefs as a final touch to their haute couture. Hankies were tied to the wrist, threaded through the top buttonhole of a suit or popped from the side pocket of a handbag.</div>
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Handkerchiefs were very popular with the armed forces to give as gifts to mothers and sweethearts.</div>
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The production of souvenir handkerchiefs can be traced to the 17th century, with designs including depictions of victories in battle, royal events, performers, maps and unusual events. These designs could help to satisfy patriotic sentiments or signify particular allegiances. By the second half of the 18th century handkerchiefs were among the most common commemorative items produced.</div>
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Handkerchiefs were even employed for advertising in political campaigns. One historian claims Martha Washington created a handkerchief to help promote the election of her husband.</div>
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Apparently she had “George Washington for President” hankies printed for distribution at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. To this day, handkerchiefs are printed depicting both Republican and Democratic parties, as well as coronation handkerchiefs for royalty. There is even a handkerchief that contains King Edward’s abdication speech.</div>
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The birth of tissues sounded the death knell for handkerchiefs. Originally invented in the 1920’s as a face towel to remove cold cream, by the 1930’s Kleenex was touted as the antidote to germs with their slogan “Don’t carry a cold in your pocket.” Busy housewives eagerly embraced the disposable hankie.</div>
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I was putting a thread legend of 25 colours together this weekend and the sun was pouring through the window bouncing light around the room. The skeins of silks were shimmering and flashing in the late afternoon sun and I felt as if my lap was full of rubies, sapphires, emeralds, opals, garnets, peridots and topazes.</div>
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Pondering on how silks are like liquid jewels two images came to mind: the big cat in Mary Dean's sampler and the "Big Cats" in the jewellery collection of Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor.</div>
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The Duchess of Windsor jewellery collection consisted of 214 pieces and grew out of the most controversial love story of modern times. Wallis and Edward married in a private ceremony on 3 June 1937, at Chateau de Candé in France and changed the course of history in the process.</div>
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The couple marked the milestones of their romance and 20 years of their marriage with jewelled gifts and the collection tells Wallis and Edward's story in a most personal way.</div>
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Edward VIII showered the love of his life, throughout their marriage with the finest Jewels. Indeed, so possessive was King Edward VIII of Wallis and the jewellery he gave her, that he instructed that the Duchess of Windsor collection of jewels be dismantled after her death. He didn't want any other woman ever to wear them, but his wishes were not carried out.</div>
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The Three Ostrich Plume Diamond Brooch was designed in 1935, by Edward (who was at the time, the Prince of Wales) for his future bride, before the wedding in 1937. It was sold by Sotheby's to the late Elizabeth Taylor.</div>
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American actress, Elizabeth Taylor, was an avid Jewelry Collector and a close friend of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. She purchased the antique diamond ostrich plume brooch as she admired it when Wallis Simpson wore it, and bought it mainly for sentimental reasons.</div>
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Sapphires were the Duchess of Windsor's favourite gemstone; Wallis thought the colour of blue sapphires brought out the colour of her eyes, and they probably did!</div>
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Rubies, Diamonds, Emeralds and Blue Sapphires feature in the Cartier Flamingo Clip.</div>
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Among the Duchess of Windsor Collection of jewelry gifts, Edward lavished on Wallis Simpson was the signature 'Great Cats' commissioned from the House of Cartier.</div>
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It was the famous Panther Bracelet that enjoyed pride of place among Wallis Simpson's Big Cat Jewelry Collection.</div>
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Another big cat, The Duchess of Windsor acquired is the Diamond and Sapphire Panther Pin made by Cartier In 1949. The big cat on this pin appears crouching in a lifelike pose, ready to leap over the moon; on a large perfectly round cabochon star sapphire weighing 152.35 carats. The panther pin was one of the Wallis Simpson's favorite pieces.</div>
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The Leopard's Head has been the London Town mark, (crowned & uncrowned) from 1478 to the present. The lion has been a symbol of the King of England, i.e., Lion Hearted King of England. It is also the national animal of England and has been associated with English royalty for hundreds of years.</div>
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The "big cats": the tiger, lion, jaguar, and leopard, belong to the genus Panthera. Their common trait is their powerful roar. Were the cats, Edward placed in the hands of the lady he adored, a silent roar declaring he was a King?</div>
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The V&A is renowned for its collection of textiles and fashion. It also has one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of jewellery in the world.</div>
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Over 3,000 jewels tell the story of jewellery in Europe from ancient times to the present day. The video clip "Spotlight on the V & A Jewellery Collection" (running time of 10 minutes) is a tantalizing glimpse of the collection.</div>
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The paintings of William Larkin provide a wonderful insight into the beauty and opulence of embroidery and costume in the early 1600's.<br />
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William Larkin was born in the 1580's and was an English painter active from 1609 until his death in 1619.</div>
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He was known for his iconic portraits of members of the court of James I of England which capture in brilliant detail the opulent layering of textiles, embroidery, lace, and jewellery characteristic of fashion in the Jacobean era.</div>
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Little is known of William Larkin's life. It is almost certain that he was the son of an innkeeper also named William Larkin and lived in the parish of St Sepulchre.</div>
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His father was a close neighbour of Robert Peake, the portrait painter to Henry, Prince of Wales, and it may have been Peake who introduced Larkin to painting.</div>
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Until 1952 Larkin was a mostly unknown artist. The paintings were attributed to the 'Curtain Master' but in the 1950s architectural historian James Lees Milne found the missing clues and could attribute some paintings to Larkin. Around 40 of his portraits are now known.</div>
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This portrait is believed to be of Lady Thornhagh and was sold by Christies in 2008 for £505,250.S</div>
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The richly decorated costumes, covered with embroidery, ruffs and cuffs, needlelace and Italian cutwork are typical of renaissance style.</div>
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The dress of Diana is identical to the one her twin sister is wearing in a companion portrait. It was quite common in those days for siblings close in age to wear the same clothes. Her matching bodice and petticoat show a fairly formal court dress in an extreme and short-lived style of fashion with slashes across the front panel of her skirt. The portrait was probably painted around 1618 when Diana was about twelve, perhaps a little older. She was unmarried. She stands on the same carpet as her twin sister in the accompanying portrait and also in the portrait of their mother a carpet of the same pattern, but with different colours is depicted.</div>
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The painting of the gold thread embroidery is one of Larkin's trademarks. His meticulous depiction of the highlights dotted all over the painting could not be copied by his assistants and experts can still tell whose hand applied the dots.</div>
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He did not use gilt or metallic leaf but created the effect of metallic shine in mere paint. He had a method of a triple layered application of brown, orange and yellow for gold, and dark grey, light grey and white for silver. Raised dots of paint added to the realistic effect. The embroidered fabrics in his paintings are built up in 7 or 8 layers of paint.</div>
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His faces are much more life like and subtle than his costumes and a world away from the mask like portraits of the 16th century.</div>
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Very few of us become proficient at a craft by instinct. If we wish to learn we need to find out as much as we can about the materials we need; the tools to use and the correct way to use them. Needlework is not just a question of a needle and some thread, but of which needle and what kind of thread, and how to use them once chosen. There are a multitude of stitches and techniques to discover and master.</div>
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I am a self taught needleworker and through Yvette's earlier books I have become competent in Hardanger, whitework and drawn thread work. I have come to appreciate the simple elegance of white on white. When there is no colour to distract, the pattern and texture formed by the stitching really comes to the fore.</div>
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I have been eagerly awaiting delivery of Yvette Stanton's new book "Early Style Hardanger" since its publication was announced, and I have not been disappointed. This is a must have book for a needleworker's library.</div>
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Normally I dip into books but I have been totally enthralled from the 1st to the 160th page, all of which are packed with over 1500 colour photos and diagrams.</div>
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There is so much to enjoy including a fascinating section on the history of hardanger. I found the chapter comparing the early style Hardanger and the modern day version particularly interesting. Early-style Hardanger is quite distinct from contemporary Hardanger. This historical style of embroidery has traditionally been used on the women’s clothing in the Hardangerfjord region, and was designed to emulate needle-made lace of the 1600s and 1700s.</div>
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The Projects chapter has 10 gorgeous projects that tempt. The small projects make wonderful learning pieces culminating in a traditional apron. The projects have well written finishing instructions and the pattern sheets come in a separate pack at the back on the book.</div>
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The section on "Stitches and Techniques" opens with "where to start" which explains how to read a chart, the stitching order and how to find the starting point, all important basics that can often be overlooked.</div>
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Yvette guides the reader through this comprehensive section with right and left handed step by step stitch and technique instructions that are extremely clear and easy to follow supplemented by well drawn out illustrations.<br />
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Early Style Hardanger is now one of my "go-to" stitch reference books and can be found on my "special shelf" within arm's reach of my stitching station.<br />
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Yvette Stanton is the publisher and designer behind Vetty Creations. Yvette is a highly respected tutor accredited by the Embroiderers Guild of NSW, and teaches embroidery classes, specialising in whitework at shops and guild groups around Australia.</div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">One hundred years ago today on the first day of the Battle of the Somme the British army alone suffered 57, 470 casualties , 19,240 of them were killed or died of their injuries. Aged 19 Private Cyril Key of the 96th company of the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) was one of those killed.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">An image of Britannia holding a trident and standing with a lion. The designer's initials, E.CR.P., appear above the front paw. In her left outstretched left hand Britannia holds an olive wreath above the rectangular tablet bearing the deceased's name cast in raised letters. Below the name tablet, to the right of the lion, is an oak spray with acorns. The name does not include the rank since there was to be no distinction between sacrifices made by different individuals. Two dolphins swim around Britannia, symbolizing Britain's sea power, and at the bottom a second lion is tearing apart the German eagle. The reverse is blank, making it a plaquette rather than a table medal. Around the picture the legend reads (in capitals) "He died for freedom and honour", or for the six hundred plaques issued to commemorate women, "She died for freedom and honour".</span></div>
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Costume historians now have a unique opportunity to study the treasury of historic clothing adorning the funeral effigies in Westminster Abbey, London. The figures are currently being completely undressed and taken apart for conservation work before they are moved from the old crypt museum to the new museum being built.</div>
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The oldest effergies were made to be displayed at the funerals of monarchs, when elaborate ceremonies weeks or even months after the death made the old custom of displaying the real body on a bier in the funeral procession impossible.</div>
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The custom was copied by aristocrats, some commissioning their own flattering and very expensive effigies in life, to be displayed dressed in their own most sumptuous clothes.</div>
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Near King Charles II stands “la Belle Stuart”; Frances, Duchess of Richmond, who ordered that her wax effigy, dressed in her coronation robes, be set up in Henry VII's chapel near the grave of Ludovic Stuart, cousin of James I, and his wife Frances. She died on 15 October 1702 and was buried in the Duke of Richmond's vault in Henry VII's chapel. Her husband (d.1672) had been buried there but neither have monuments or gravestones. Frances had intended the wax figure, modelled by Mrs Goldsmith, to be her memorial.</div>
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Beside her wax effigy stood her pet African grey parrot on a stand. It is said to have lived with her for 40 years and died soon after her. Very few mounted bird specimens survive from this period but x-rays show that the entire skeleton of the bird is intact including its skull. This was a very primitive technique but the parrot probably survived because it was kept in a showcase</div>
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Most of the effigies have crudely modelled wooden or straw stuffed cloth legs, since they would never be seen under the layers of clothing, but La Belle Stuart's slender ankles and calves, dressed in two layers of silk stockings, were modelled in wax.</div>
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The costume collection is of international importance, and includes exceptionally rare surviving underwear including the chamois leather trimmed corset of Elizabeth I, a tiny corset made for a four-year-old boy, and the five layers of petticoats and sky blue gold embroidered corset that Frances proved to be wearing.</div>
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Charles' effergy was dressed in a flowing crimson and blue velvet garter robe, and a blue silk doublet and breeches interwoven with real gold thread, heavily embroidered in silver and trimmed with flounces of silver lace. Even the fringe of silk ribbons is regarded as being of importance by the costume historians, and only one other comparable suit is known, in Scotland.</div>
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The effigies dating back to the 14th century have carved wooden heads, but the later figures were startlingly realistic, modelled in wax with glass eyes and real eyelashes and eyebrows.</div>
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The figures include Henry VII, Elizabeth I, Charles II, William and Mary, and William Pitt. The last installed was Admiral Lord Nelson, an audacious attempt by the abbey to claw back some of the tourist trade lost to St Paul’s, where he was actually buried.</div>
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The most poignant is the little Marquess of Normanby, who died aged three in 1715, and whose effigy was dressed in sumptuous clothes including a Spitalfields silk gown and a peach velvet coat – both tailored with slits in the back to take the leading reins he was still wearing. His tiny clothes were the height of fashion for his day.</div>
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The effigies became a major tourist attraction for visitors who paid pennies to see them, but as they became dustier and shabbier they were moved into more obscure corners of the abbey, until by the 19th century they were known as “the Ragged Regiment”. There was some restoration work in the 1930s. During the war they were moved for safekeeping to the incongruous surroundings of Piccadilly tube station.</div>
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Frances Teresa (Stuart), Duchess of Richmond and Lennox, known as 'La Belle Stuart' was born in 1647, the daughter of Walter Stuart (a distant relative of the royal house of Stuart) and his wife Sophia. She was brought up in France and after the Restoration came to England with her mother and was appointed maid of honour to Catherine of Braganza, queen of Charles II.<br />
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Samuel Pepys, the diarist, recorded that she was the greatest beauty he had ever seen. The King was so besotted with her that he considered divorcing Catherine to marry her but Frances had already accepted the proposal of Charles Stuart, Duke of Richmond and Lennox (as his third wife). She eloped with him, much to the fury of the King, and they were married privately in March 1667.</div>
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Following the war with the Dutch, Charles had a commemorative medal cast, in which her face was used as a model for Britannia; this subsequently became customary for medals, coins and statues. Thus, a Scottish woman graced not only medals commemorating a naval victory, but also the coinage of the Realm.</div>
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She continued to appear on some of the copper coinage of the United Kingdom until the decimalization of the currency in 1971. She also appeared on the fifty pence piece in 2006.</div>
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In 1669 the King's infatuation with Frances was again demonstrated when she became seriously ill with smallpox. Charles rushed to her bedside and forgave her for marrying without his consent. She recovered, and the King allowed the Queen to appoint her a Lady of the Bedchamber. At this point the relationship between Frances and the King changed to one of friendship. Charles had fallen for the charms of Nell Gwynne.</div>
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The duchess was present at the birth of James Francis Edward Stuart, son of James II, in 1688, being one of those who signed the certificate before the council. James’s enemies later developed an elaborate theory that a live newborn from another mother had been slipped into Mary of Modena’s bed in a warming pan to replace her own stillborn child and to be presented as the male heir to the throne.</div>
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After the death of her husband in the 1670's, and without children or a male heir, Frances' husband's estates reverted back to the King. He continued to be her good friend and granted her a 1000-pound pension per year for life. Before she died in 1702 Frances arranged to purchase the estate of Lethington, south of Haddington in the Lammermuir Hills of East Lothian, Scotland.</div>
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In memory of her title as Duchess of Lennox she requested the estate's name to be changed to Lennoxlove. Today it continues as a memorial to her. Her portrait by W. Wissing and J.Van der Vaart hangs in a place of honour in the manor house. The blue eyes still flash in her beautiful face, capturing the hearts of all who pass by.</div>
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While the King surrounded himself with a bevy of mistresses throughout his life, most historians see Frances, the “one who got away”, as the one love interest who truly broke his heart. During his pursuit of her, Charles wrote her the love poem:</div>
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“The Pleasures of Love”:</div>
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I pass all my hours in a shady old grove,<br />
But I live not the day when I see not my love;<br />
I survey every walk now my Phyllis is gone,<br />
And sigh when I think we were there all alone,<br />
Oh, then ‘tis I think there’s no Hell<br />
Like loving too well.</div>
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But each shade and each conscious bower when I find<br />
Where I once have been happy and she has been kind;<br />
When I see the print left of her shape on the green,<br />
And imagine the pleasure may yet come again;<br />
Oh, then ‘tis I think that no joys are above<br />
The pleasures of love.</div>
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While alone to myself I repeat all her charms,<br />
She I love may be locked in another man’s arms,<br />
She may laugh at my cares, and so false she may be,<br />
To say all the kind things she before said to me!<br />
Oh then ‘tis, oh then, that I think there’s no Hell<br />
Like loving too well.</div>
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But when I consider the truth of her heart,<br />
Such an innocent passion, so kind without art,<br />
I fear I have wronged her, and hope she may be<br />
So full of true love to be jealous of me.<br />
Oh then ‘tis I think that no joys are above<br />
The pleasures of love.</div>
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Nicolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10406422781789740027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539183373781202368.post-82776631635971850622016-06-28T07:22:00.002+01:002016-06-28T07:22:20.915+01:00Embroidery from around the world<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today's post is about a fair trade artisan group in India. St Mary's is a mix of Christian, Hindu and Muslim women working together using traditional skills to create Gujarti embroidery which features mirror work.</div>
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The clips are just over 13 and 14 minutes respectively. They provide us with a thought provoking look at embroidery in another culture and how through women coming together they have access to medical help, saving schemes, education and scholarships for their children.</div>
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Gujarat is a state in Western India, sometimes referred to as the "Jewel of Western India". Gujarat was known to the Ancient Greeks, and was familiar in other Western centers of civilization through the end of the European Middle Ages.</div>
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Kutch Embroidery is a handicraft and textile signature art tradition of the tribal community of Kutch District in Gujarat This embroidery with its rich designs has made a notable contribution to the Indian embroidery traditions. The embroidery, practiced normally by women is generally done on fabrics of cotton, in the form of a net using cotton or silk threads. In certain patterns, it is also crafted over silk and satin.</div>
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The types of stitches adopted are “square chain, double buttonhole, pattern darning, running stitch, satin and straight stitches”. The signature effect of the colorful embroidery sparkles when small mirrors called abhla are sewn over the geometrically shaped designs. There are 16 different types of embroideries known in Gujarat, each belonging to a different community. All of these communities have their own, unique style of embroidery, different motifs, patterns that give them a visual identity. Even a person’s social status can be identified through the embroidery he or she wears.</div>
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From the geometric Kharek to the intricate Suf and to the thorn bush inspired Rabari, the identity of every Kutchhi person is woven in the stitches of these embroideries. Things seen in daily lives; flowers and bushes, peacocks and camels, women doing household chores and men tending to cattle, all these are inspirations for these beautiful designs.</div>
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The history of the Kutch Embroidery can be traced to the 16th and 17th centuries when people migrated from countries such as Afghanistan, Greece, Germany, Iran and Iraq to Gujarat.</div>
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Kutchhi women embroider everything from garments to wall hangings, toran, bed covers, bags and even camel decorations. Mirror-work, which is a characteristic identity of Gujarat, is thought to be originated with the use of naturally occurring mica found in the deserts. It is used so much now that mirror glass is specially manufactured for this purpose.</div>
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Traditionally, embroideries were largely meant for personal use, dowry or gifts and are a generational art with the skills taught from mother to daughter. For the woman of the Gujart embroidery is just another part of their daily chores but one from which they are able to create a source of income.</div>
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Stitchery is not a word that is in common use in my part of England today or at least in my vocabulary, and on reading the word I stopped and looked it up. The dictionary definition of the noun is "needlework, sewing, especially modern embroidery". It is good to learn something new everyday even a small word.</div>
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Besides embroidery, stitchery can be used to refer to plain sewing, dressmaking and mending. How many of us make our own clothes and darn socks?</div>
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There was a time when it was taken for granted that all women could plain sew. I remember being taught in school how to hem, seam and gather whilst making an apron. It is very different learning a stitch at school and using the skill in adulthood. Poor teaching can make a school lesson dull but a good teacher can open up a fascinating world and start you on a life long journey that can take you to many different places.</div>
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If you think back to your school days and remember "domestic science" as boring, think again. In researching different forms of needlework I am learning about their historical, geographical and economic backgrounds. Take the simple Dorset button for example.</div>
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A Dorset button is a style of craft-made button originating in the English county of Dorset. Their manufacture was at a peak between 1622 and 1850, after which they were overtaken by machine-made buttons from factories in the developing industries of Birmingham and other growing cities.</div>
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'Wheels' are the most characteristic form of Dorset button. They are also known as Blandford Cartwheel, Crosswheels, Basket weave, Birds eye, Yarrell and Mites.</div>
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Toggles and simple buttons had been made throughout England since time immemorial to meet local needs. Buttons were traded between towns by itinerant peddlers. but there was no organised trade or centres of production beyond this. Around 1600, men's upper-body clothing was beginning its transition from the doublet to the coat. Buttons became larger, more prominent and became a specialist item made by button-makers, rather than tailors.</div>
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The first Dorset buttons used products of the local sheep farms: ram's horn as a base and locally produced cloth over this.</div>
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These were the High Top buttons. The doublet or peascod was fastened by a single central row of small, closely spaced buttons. These were made tall, to avoid the small buttons slipping out of the stiff fabric. As the button line of fashion moved outwards and the garment became more flexible, a wider and lower button was needed, the Dorset Knob.</div>
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In 1622 Abraham Case moved to Shaftesbury and set up the first commercial button making enterprise.His first buttons were made in a small workshop. Later buttons for the growing trade were made by outworkers working from their homes as piece work. Some farm workers worked farmland during daylight hours, button making in the evenings or in Winter. Most though were full-time button makers. This outwork became the norm and became an important source of income for many families, and for those too old to work in the fields.</div>
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A good buttoner could make around six dozen (72) buttons a day and could earn up to 3 shillings.[11] Buttons sold at retail for between eight pence and three shillings a dozen. This compared to wages of perhaps 9d a day as a farm worker.</div>
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By the end of the 17th century, Buttony had grown to become an important industry, controlled within the Case family. In the early 1800's new forms of button were developed. Wire was imported by wagon from the Midlands, then twisted into rings and soldered. These ring formers replaced the previous horn discs and began the characteristic Dorset styles of the wheel buttons. Ring making was carried out by children working as 'Twisters' who formed the rings, 'Dippers' who soldered them shut and 'Stringers' who tied them into strings for distribution to the button makers.</div>
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The hand made Dorset Button was slowly replaced by machine made buttons. The first cloth and thread button machine was invented by Benjamin Saunders 1825. The Saunders machine was closely followed by others including one by John Aston in the early 1840s.</div>
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Amongst the many industrial machines on display at the Great Exhibition was Mr John Ashton's button-making press, first patented in 1841.This could manufacture buttons from thin metal sheet far more quickly and cheaply than hand work. These new buttons had the advantage of smart modernity. Birmingham would soon become a major centre for this type of costume jewellery and small presswork. The centralised factories, steam power and access to venture capital could not be competed with by the small-scale enterprises of rural Dorset.</div>
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Although the agrarian economy of Dorset remained profitable, the collapse of button-making led to much personal hardship. Many joined the mass emigrations to Australia, Canada or the USA. Some became destitute and entered the workhouse.</div>
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Antique samplers combine our love of needlework and history and one of the first things we do when spotting a sampler is to run the stitcher's name through Google and Ancestry. So many of these girls died young, often in childbirth, but there are a few that through clues left in their sampler tell a fascinating story and take you on a journey through a family's history.</div>
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When we first started to research Elizabeth Furniss born 1823 (-/+ 1 year) we found that we did not have enough information to say with certainty that we had the "right" girl. There are several girls with varying spellings of her name in the period we were looking at.</div>
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Through an exchange of information this weekend on a Facebook group and a posting of a photograph of Ann Wright's sampler we were able to find the right "Elizabeth".</div>
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As you can see on Ann's sampler the apple tree, the figures of Adam and Eve and the pastoral scene are almost identical to Elizabeth's.</div>
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Ann's sampler tells us that she was born in 1836 (incidentally the year Elizabeth stitched her sampler) and that she stitched her sampler at Darnall School. The school was in the Township of Attercliffe cum Darnall in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.</div>
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The 1841 census shows an "Ann Wright" of the right age (-/+ 1 year) living in Lead Mill Row Sheffield, just over a mile away from Darnall School. Focusing on this area I found an "Elizabeth Furniss" of the correct age living less than 1 mile away in 3 Shude Hill in the 1841 and 1851 census.</div>
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I was confident that we had found our stitcher but there were further leads to follow through. A few weeks ago I stumbled across another sampler, stitched by Eliza Powell, that shared many of the same motifs with Elizabeth's sampler.</div>
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Eliza's sampler tells us that she was born in 1813 (-/+ 1 year). This was a very popular name in the period but now being able to focus on Sheffield an "Eliza" of the right age was found on the 1841 census.</div>
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Eliza lived in Ellens Yard, off Arundel Street which is less that 1 mile from Elizabeth in Shude Hill and even closer to Ann in Lead Mill Row.</div>
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The Grammar School that appeared in her sampler can be found close by. It had only just been built, maybe that is why she included it in her sampler. The school was for boys.</div>
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There is another similar sampler to be considered in our research, Sarah Ann Downend.</div>
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The sampler has no clues to age or area but searching through Sheffield birth records a girl of this name was christened in 1815 in the Cathedral which is a stone's throw from Shude Hill</div>
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There was one further sampler to investigate. Esther Charleton has two houses and Adam & Eve figures that are very similar to those in Elizabeth's sampler. There is also a pastoral scene where one of the sheep appears to be identical.</div>
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Esther's sampler told us her age and a search quickly showed that she was also christened in the Cathedral.</div>
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We now had five girls who lived within 1 square mile of each other. Based on this I think it reasonable to say that the girls shared the same needlework teacher and all probably attended Darnall School (assuming that the teacher taught in the same school between 1816 and 1844). Elizabeth, Eliza and Ann were not christened in the Cathedral so I do not believe that they attended the same Sunday School.</div>
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Key: A - Darnall School, B - Shude Hill (Elizabeth Furniss), C - Lead Mill Row (Ann Wright), D - The Cathedral (Esther Charleton & Sarah Ann Downend), E - Arundel Street(Eliza Powell).</div>
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Through a trade directory I have managed to find several school mistresses who taught in the area and I plan to research the names.</div>
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If you know of any further samplers that share characteristics with Elizabeth Furniss or have any knowledge about Darnall School, please let us know.</div>
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Elizabeth lived in the block of houses to the left.</div>
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Elizabeth's home would have looked out onto Soho Mills and Pond Works.</div>
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Lead Mill and the River Sheaf.</div>
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Was "The Towers" the inspiration for Elizabeth, Sarah and Esther's house, note the trees.</div>
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Heath Yeo is part of a dwindling pool of sarong kebaya makers in Singapore who still use the 1950s style of free motion embroidery - locally known as sulam - when sewing patterns onto kebayas, the traditional dress of Peranakan women.</div>
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The tropical topography of Southeast Asia infuses his patterns, from the wavy petals of hibiscus flowers to the bold colours of native birds.</div>
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While the process can be computerised and completed in a fraction of the time that it takes him, such machines just do not impart the same intangible quality that his customers from the Peranakan community call “hidup” - which means “alive” in Malay. Mr Yeo’s sulam kebayas cost between S$1,000 and S$1,300 .</div>
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It takes Mr Yeo up to two weeks to complete one kebaya. First designing the pattern on the fabric, then tracing it out, then colouring and shading in the details using thread and a sewing machine.</div>
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Yesterday we looked at church vestments and the work of the Truro Cathedral's Sewing Guild. The guild also cares for the altar cloths at the Cathedral.</div>
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Altar cloths are used by many religious groups as a sign of respect towards the holiness of the altar, as in the Catholic Church.</div>
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The use of altar-cloths goes back to the early centuries of the Roman Catholic Church. By the fourth century, during the celebration of Holy Communion, the altar was covered with a white linen cloth. Symbolically, the cloths represent the purity and the devotion of God’s Faithful, and the linens in which the body of Christ was wrapped when he was laid in the tomb.</div>
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In the Roman Catholic Church the custom of using three altar-cloths began in the ninth century. The reason being that if the Precious Blood should by accident be spilt it might be absorbed by the altar-cloths before it reached the altar-stone. There are four symbolic colors: red, white, violet and green, while black is sometimes used for funerals.</div>
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Red symbolizes the color of fire to represent the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost and times when the work of the Holy Spirit is emphasized. During Holy Week it represents the blood of Christ. Red is also used for ordinations, church anniversaries and civil observances such as Memorial Day and Thanksgiving.</div>
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At Truro Cathedral there is a magnificent red altar cloth "The Angels and the Censer" which I was able to study in close detail on my visit.</div>
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I am trying to find out more about the altar cloth, when it was made and who did the originally embroidery. I will be visiting the Courtney Library shortly to carry out some further research. I do, however, know that the altar cloth was repaired in more recent years by Sheila Landi of The Landi Company.</div>
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If you are interested in textile conservation Landi's book "The Textile Conservator's Manual" is worth adding to your library.</div>
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Truro Cathedral has some altar cloths on permanent display. (<i>The photographs have been taken through glass)</i></div>
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Besides the grandeur of the Gothic architecture and the magnificence of the stained glass windows there is much to see at the Cathedral. Tucked away in a small corner of the Cathedral next to the books of remembrance is a small sampler - on every visit I take time to </div>
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For over nine hundred years, Cornwall was part of the Diocese of Exeter. The sheer size of that Diocese meant that the Bishop of Exeter was a rare visitor west of the Tamar, and there was a growing pressure from the leading Cornish Anglicans during the nineteenth century to create a separate diocese for Cornwall.</div>
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In 1877, after 30 years of intense lobbying, the Cornish Diocese was re-established at Truro. The Diocese of Truro covers the whole of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly plus two parishes in Devon!</div>
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The site chosen in Truro for the Cathedral was where the Parish Church of St Mary’s stood. Since at least 1259, and probably before, there has been a Parish Church of St Mary located on this site. When Truro was chosen it was assumed that the Parish Church would be completely demolished to make way for the Cathedral. However, the architect John Loughborough Pearson, argued and eventually gained permission to keep at least part of the old Parish Church. He cleverly incorporated the South Aisle of the church into his design for the new Cathedral.</div>
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Truro Cathedral was the first cathedral to be built on a new site since Salisbury was started in 1220.</div>
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Edward White Benson was the first Bishop of Truro (1877 - 1883). He was previously Headmaster of Wellington College and then Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral. It was his vision and energy that really established the new Diocese of Truro and the building of this wonderful Cathedral. From 1883 until his death in 1896 he was Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1880 Bishop Benson created the ‘Service of Nine Lessons and Carols’ which for over 120 years has formed part of the Cathedral’s traditional worship on Christmas Eve.</div>
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On a recent visit to Truro Cathedral in Cornwall, England I found a small group of dedicated needleworkers busy sewing new vestments. The Cathedral Sewing Guild meets weekly to maintain and repair the robes, embroideries and hassocks.</div>
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Over the years the Guild has made vestments, collection bags, cushions, kneelers, gowns for St Mary's Singers, and carried out numerous adjustments to the choristers cassocks.</div>
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They work in the Cathedral as besides the good light and space available it enables visitors to witness their work and ask questions.</div>
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Church embroidery opens up a whole new field of needlework to be explored. As the the V&A’s autumn exhibition Opus Anglicanum: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery, draws nearer now is a good time to find out more.</div>
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The Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary is an Anglican cathedral located in the city of Truro, Cornwall, England. The "uniform" used in the Cathedral is known as a Set. <i>(Images used are taken from different periods, denominations and countries).</i><a data-mce-href="https://hands-across-the-sea-samplers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/image-422.jpeg" href="https://hands-across-the-sea-samplers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/image-422.jpeg"><img alt="image" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4675" data-mce-src="https://hands-across-the-sea-samplers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/image-422.jpeg" height="600" src="https://hands-across-the-sea-samplers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/image-422.jpeg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="600" /></a>CHASUBLE: This is the principal vestment, worn by the President (the officiating priest). It was originally circular with a hole for the head but is now open at the side like a tabard.</div>
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DALMATIC: A short robe with large, full sleeves and often highly ornamented, which is worn by the Deacon (this originated in Dalamtia, hence the name.</div>
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TUNICLE: Shorter than the Dalmatic and less richly ornamented; it is worn by the Gospel Clerk (who carries the Gospels) and the Crucifer (who carries the Processional Cross)</div>
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STOLE: A band worn like a scarf; it is a symbol of priesthood and represents the yolk of Christ.</div>
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BURSE: A flat square of stiffened silk which holds the Corporal, (the cloth on which are placed the communion vessels)</div>
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<b>Blue</b>, a colour associated with the Virgin Mary, is permitted for the feast of the Immaculate Conception in Spain and in some dioceses in Portugal, Mexico, and South America. In the Philippines, it is authorised for all feasts of the Virgin Mary, a practice followed in some other places without official warrant. There have also been uses of blue in place of violet for the season of Advent despite the fact that this practice is prohibited under liturgical law.</div>
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Hands Across the Sea Samplers (H.A.T.S) are pleased to present a new release "Elizabeth Furniss 1836". There are lots to enjoy with this striking girl: Adam & Eve with a wonderful apple tree, a red house, a crazy patchwork pasture packed full of animals and just look at the funky striped geese !!!<br />
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Elizabeth has been brought to you in collaboration with Bhooma Aravamudan who stitched the model. At the very core of H.A.T.S is a team of needleworkers who are passionate about antique samplers and being able share those samplers with you.<br />
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Nicolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10406422781789740027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539183373781202368.post-67204769150380305172016-06-21T06:41:00.000+01:002016-06-22T06:41:29.842+01:00Ann's Gown<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This magnificent gown originally belonged to Ann Fanshawe, daughter of Crisp Gascoyne who became Lord Mayor of the City of London in November 1753. This type of dress with its very wide skirt and short train was called a ‘mantua’ (see previous <span data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" style="color: red;"><strong><a data-mce-href="https://hands-across-the-sea-samplers.com/the-mantua/" data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" href="https://hands-across-the-sea-samplers.com/the-mantua/" style="color: red;">BLOG POST</a></strong></span>)</div>
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Ann Fanshawe, born 1724, was the eldest daughter of Sir Crisp Gascoyne of Bifrons House in Barking, Essex. On 13 June 1745 Ann married Thomas Fanshawe of Parsloes in Dagenham, with whom she had four children. According to the History of the Fanshawe Family, published in 1927, a portrait of Ann, now lost, showed ‘her to have been strikingly handsome’.</div>
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Crisp Gascoyne (c. 1700-1761) set up business as brewer in Gravel Lane, Houndsditch in the City of London and was admitted as freeman of the Brewers’ Company in 1741. In November 1752 Gascoyne became Lord Mayor, the first to live in the recently completed Mansion House. His wife Margaret had died in 1740 and Ann, who was in her mid-twenties, acted as Lady Mayoress.</div>
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On 9 November 1752, Gascoyne went in the City Barge to Westminster Hall to be sworn into office. He returned via Blackfriars Stairs and then went in Procession to the Guildhall where there ‘an elegant Entertainment’ was followed by a Ball. The London Daily Advertiser recorded on the following day that ‘the State Coach went to the Mansion House, and took up Mrs. Fanshawe, Daughter of his Lordship, who appeared as Lady-Mayoress, and carried her to Guildhall’.</div>
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The Covent Garden Journal noted that the appearance of many of the ladies on that occasion was ‘extremely brilliant’. However, there was such a crowd that ‘the Ladies and passing and repassing, found it not a little difficult to save their Lappets, and even their Petticoats’. It also recorded that ‘The Ball about ten o’Clock was opened by Mrs Fanshaw [sic] (as Lady Mayoress, who made a most splendid Figure) and the Hon. Mr. York, Lord Chancellor’s youngest Son.'</div>
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The silk of her gown was made in Spitalfields and bales and anchors, as well as barley and hops are woven into the fabric, alluding to her father’s brewery business. At least fourteen colours and four different types of silver thread were used, and the fabric would have been very expensive.</div>
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Silks were woven in lengths of cloth sufficient for several dresses, but the fabric for Ann's dress is likely to have been a bespoke commission. A customer bought a design from a mercer and six months was the lead time for the weaving of the silk cloth, which could have been made up into a dress in little more than a week.</div>
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Natalie Rothenstein describes the chain of transactions as, “silk was generally imported by a silk merchant. It was then sold through a broker to a silkman who, in turn, supplied the master weaver with the qualities and quantities required. Either the silkman or the master weaver had it thrown and dyed. The master weaver would normally obtain an order from a mercer and instruct his foreman. The latter, based at the master weaver’s warehouse, would measure out the warp for the journeyman, who returned it when completed.” Ann would never have met the people who made her dress and they may never have seen her in it.</div>
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On 10 November 1752 wore this magnificent gown to the Guildhall. Under the gown she would have worn a shift, stays (corset), silk stockings and garters to hold them up. To maintain the shape of the gown a hooped petticoat with whalebone and cross ties was required.</div>
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The dress came in three pieces, first the skirt, then the stomacher followed by the bodice. There were no hooks or buttons to hold it all together, pins would be used. Lace sleeve ruffles were added and a lappet upon her head.</div>
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The dress was two metres wide and getting through a doorway or in and out her carriage on the journey to the Guildhall must have been quite a feat.</div>
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Information and images are from the Museum of London where the dress is on display in gallery - Empire: London's Manufactures</div>
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines 'lappet' as "an appendage or pendant to head-gear of any kind; esp. one of the streamers attached to a lady's head-dress."</div>
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During the 18th century it was fashionable to wear indoor caps with long lace lappets. The lappets might be pinned up on top of the head in pleats, but more usually were left to hang loose, fluttering with the slightest movement.</div>
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They were a particular focus for the display of wealth and taste. The quality of the lace, the excellence of its design and fine workmanship, and thus its likely expense, would be immediately apparent to observers.</div>
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Nicolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10406422781789740027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539183373781202368.post-28410803108439953412016-06-20T08:00:00.002+01:002016-06-20T08:00:16.976+01:00Monday Morning Muses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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‘That's women’s work’ – a phrase that in the 21st century causes many Western women to bristle. Whilst today we might expect and even demand that our husbands share household chores our mothers probably did not, and our grandmothers certainly did not.</div>
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My husband, now he is retired, does his fair share of housework but I would never, in a million years, expect him to sew on a button, turn up a hem or make a pair of curtains.</div>
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Now why is that when there is a rich history of men sewing in various capacities?</div>
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Sailors and soldiers, for example, made and mended their own clothing. On board 18th and 19th century warships they would have had ‘make and mend’ days when sailors repaired their clothing.</div>
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The tailor is the classic example of the male who sewed, not only men’s clothing but women's too. The tailor sewed to make a living.</div>
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Today many of the top fashion designers are male. We have male stitching friends within the groups and forums we belong to.</div>
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So why, in the 21st century, do we think of sewing as "women's work" ? I have been pondering this all weekend.</div>
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Whilst I would feel the same sense of satisfaction and pride looking at a rail of perfectly pressed shirts and a beautifully hung pair of curtains, I would have enjoyed making the curtains far more than ironing the shirts.</div>
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Is it because we derive so much pleasure from time with our needles that we want to preserve and protect its status as a female tradition?</div>
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<b><i>“Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun, 1859</i></b></h5>
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Maybe we have to look to the past for the answer. Women sewed out of necessity, and sewing, embroidering and knitting were considered as suitable, even necessary, amusement and activity for them - a domestic handicraft.</div>
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Should the phrase "domestic handicraft" be considered along with "women's work" as politically incorrect in the 21st century?</div>
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I was looking at some judging appointments I have this summer and the show schedules use the term "domestic handicrafts". Wouldn't "arts and crafts" be more appropriate?</div>
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Throughout the history of art, domestic handicrafts have been regarded as women’s work, and as such, not considered “high” or fine art. Even post Women’s Liberation needlework is one of the art forms that can still be preconceived to be mainly a feminine tradition.</div>
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Quilting, embroidery, needlework, and sewing — none of these have been deemed worthy artistic equivalents to painting and sculpture. There is an age-old aesthetic hierarchy that places certain forms of art over others based on gender associations. This has historically devalued “women’s work” specifically because it was associated with the domestic and the “feminine.”</div>
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<strong><i>There is a hierarchy in the arts: decorative art at the bottom, and the human form at the top. Because we are men." </i></strong><strong><i>— Le Corbusier and Amédée Ozenfant, 1918</i></strong></h5>
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That hierarchy was radically challenged in the 1960s in the wake of the Women’s Liberation Movement. Feminist artists sought to resurrect women’s craft and decorative art and to elevate “women’s craft” to the level of “high art.”</div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" style="color: red;"><strong><a data-mce-href="https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/5167/The_Dinner_Party/image/11760/overall" data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" href="https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/5167/The_Dinner_Party/image/11760/overall" style="color: red;">The Dinner Party</a></strong></span> by Judy Chicago, is an important icon of 1970s feminist art and a milestone in twentieth-century art. It is a multi-media work that consists of ceramics, china painting, sewing, needlework, embroidery, and other mediums traditionally associated with “women’s work.”</div>
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The Dinner Party comprises of a massive ceremonial banquet, arranged on a triangular table with a total of thirty-nine place settings, each commemorating an important woman from history.</div>
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The settings consist of embroidered runners, gold chalices and utensils, and china-painted porcelain plates with raised central motifs that are based on vulvar and butterfly forms and rendered in styles appropriate to the individual women being honored.</div>
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The names of another 999 women are inscribed in gold on the white tile floor below the triangular table. This permanent installation is the centrepeice of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, on the 4th Floor of the Brooklyn Museum.</div>
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In the meantime as it is Monday morning and my main housework day I had better go and do my "women's work" when really I would prefer to be practicing my "domestic handicrafts" - UMPH !!!</div>
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"Textile art" is defined as: arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative object. How textiles can be used in art has been taken to a new level by Benjamin Shine.</div>
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From afar these intricate portraits appear to be painted using the finest of brushstrokes, but take a step closer and the amazing reality is unraveled: they've been carefully crafted out of reels of folded fabric.</div>
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These amazing creations each contain 10 to 50 metres of tulle pleated, folded and finally ironed in place to create realistic images.</div>
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First the uncut length is piled onto a canvas as a dense voluminous layer. Once entirely covered Benjamin says "I take a deep breath and go for it! "</div>
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‘I move the tulle around, pressing, pleating and bunching it to form the basic tones and textures".</div>
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‘This initial placement sets up the entire process before I focus on the detail. Then the tulle is bonded to the canvas using a hot iron,' reveals the artist.</div>
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‘I always envisaged building a diverse body of work with this medium but subsequently became inundated with portrait commissions!’ he says.</div>
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<i></i>This portrait by John Singer Sargent depicts Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth standing erect, white faced, holding King Duncan's crown above her head. Long plaits of red hair bound with gold hang down to Terry's knees, over a heather-coloured embroidered velvet cloak.</div>
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The spectacular gown immortalized in the portrait was worn by actress Ellen Terry in the role of Lady Macbeth at London’s Lyceum Theatre in 1888. The dress was one of the most celebrated costumes of the era.</div>
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Designed by Alice Comyns-Carr and made in crochet by Ada Nettleship, using a soft green wool and blue tinsel yarn from Bohemia to create an effect similar to chain mail. It was embroidered with gold and decorated with 1,000 iridescent beetle wings.</div>
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The dress has a narrow border of Celtic designs worked out in red and white stones, is hemmed on all the edges. The design was inspired by a dress worn by Lady Randolph Churchill that was also trimmed with green beetle wings. It was designed to "look as much like soft chain armour... and yet have something that would give the appearance of the scales of a serpent".</div>
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Terry wrote to her daughter, <i>"I wish you could see my dresses. They are superb, especially the first one: green beetles on it, and such a cloak! The photographs give no idea of it at all, for it is in colour that it is so splendid".</i></div>
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Beetle wings have an iridescence that is fascinating. Seen in candle or gas light they could be mistaken for emeralds or sapphires. The wing cases are hard and shell like, they are tough yet break under direct pressure.</div>
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The beetle-wings used in embroidery are a naturally shed byproduct, the fore-wings mostly come from members of the family Buprestidae, often know as Jewel Beetles.</div>
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Beetle-wings have been used for centuries by Indian civilisations, cut into tiny spangle shapes to adorn a range of objects from garments and turban cloths, to canopies and book covers, their reflective properties admired as a means to ward off evil spirits. In the 19th century beetlewing embroidery became a luxury export to Britain for ladies’ ball gowns and other textiles.</div>
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In Victorian England and Europe, the desire for examples of expertly worked curiosities from foreign lands using unusual flora and fauna such as iridescent feathers, hummingbirds, and beetle wings created a large market for the production and export of such goods. India and South American provided many of these “exotic” things.</div>
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The book Victorian Jewellery by Nancy Armstrong mentions an 1865 French tulle ball gown with thirty-seven yards of fabric strewn with beetles, butterflies, spangles, mother-of-pearl and so forth. Artisans in numerous cities in Europe as well as India produced these often excessive textiles and ornaments.</div>
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There is an Indian beetle wing tea cosy from the Victorian era in the collection of The Hampshire Museums Service. The constrasting colour of green beetle wings against a ruby wine coloured silk satin is a treat for the eye.</div>
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The couched thread adds to the opulent look of the tea cosy combining an European item with Indian design.</div>
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Consternation reigned in old Dr. Catlin’s home one night when it was found that the chambermaid had gone to a ball with the doctor’s pet collection of butterflies and bugs stuck all over a white Tarleton frock. His entomological treasures, rich and rare, were carefully pinned in cases with locked glass doors on them. The doctor’s wife had worn a dress to some festivity ornamented with beaded butterflies and when the occasion arrived for Miss Honora O’Halleran to attend the ball of the McGinnerty Association with Barney Brannigan it struck her that the bugs would work in beautifully. She detached about half of the collection, valued at some thousands of dollars, and sewed them by their hind legs to the most prominent portions of her costume. Putting on a waterproof she boarded a car and went off to be the belle of the ball............................. A clue was obtained to their fate from the cook, who remembered to have seen Honora with a box of “gold croton bugs” up in her room. Dr. Catlin was up to let the house maid in when at all hours in the morning she waltzed into the basement, her bedraggled tarlatan skirt covered with the broken wings and severed legs of the famous collection. When the storm broke Honora advised the old man not to take on so for a “few ould insects.”</div>
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The Hebrew name Hagar means “one who flees” or “one who seeks refuge.”</div>
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Hagar lived at around 2000 BC, working in a foreign land as a domestic servant for a rich man called Abraham and his wife, Sarah. As Sarah was unable to have children, they followed a common practice of the time: Sarah offered her servant to Abraham. When Hagar became pregnant, however, Sarah grew jealous and cast her out of their home.</div>
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An angel of God found her hopeless, alone and crying in the desert. The angel spoke to her, promising a blessing on her child and naming him Ishmael, which means “God hears.”</div>
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In response to how God sought her out in her hopelessness, Hagar declared, “You are the God who sees me.”</div>
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Hagar returned to Abraham’s household, but 14 years later, Sarah bore her own son and again, due to jealousy, forced Hagar and Ishmael to leave.</div>
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Hagar returned to the desert and wandered there without hope. Finally, when their water ran out, she placed her son under a bush and walked away to weep at a distance, as she could not bear to watch him die.</div>
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God again heard their cries. An angel of God called to Hagar and said, “Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying.”</div>
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The angel of God reminded Hagar of God’s blessing and provided a spring of water for them. They survived and prospered, and Ishmael became a great nation as God had promised.</div>
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High shipping costs makes buying books at auction very expensive but I thought I would show some lots that are coming up for auction. I enjoyed browsing the titles to see if there were any I wanted to add to my library. There was one and following a quick search on Amazon bought a copy for just 1 penny plus £2.80 postage (!!) - how do they managed to sell and ship for so little ?</div>
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Coming up for <span data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" style="color: red;"><strong><a data-mce-href="http://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/woolley-and-wallis/catalogue-id-srwo10114/lot-9372045a-d420-4a52-9c8c-a62400f39b56?utm_source=auction-alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=auction-alert&utm_content=lot-image-link" data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" href="http://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/woolley-and-wallis/catalogue-id-srwo10114/lot-9372045a-d420-4a52-9c8c-a62400f39b56?utm_source=auction-alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=auction-alert&utm_content=lot-image-link" style="color: red;">AUCTION</a></strong></span> on July 6th, 2016 with Wolley and Wallis are several lots (62 to 66) of Swedish flat weave.</div>
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Simple geometric patterns were incorporated into flat woven tapestries or Swedish pile rugs and carpets, adding charm and immediacy to this folk art. The colourful fabrics were originally used as either cushions, bench or bedcovers primarily woven for the young woman’s dowry and only used for special occasions. Most of the year the textile treasures were stored in chests, which kept the colours unfaded and preserved for generations.</div>
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A number of Swedish museums have extensive collections of these tapestries (See Trivia below).</div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" style="color: red;"><strong><a data-mce-href="http://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/cowan/catalogue-id-cowans10008/lot-c482e01e-b575-4a16-a225-a61e00e74ea7" data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" href="http://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/cowan/catalogue-id-cowans10008/lot-c482e01e-b575-4a16-a225-a61e00e74ea7" style="color: red;">COWANS</a> </strong></span>auctioneers have a tramp art sewing box for sale on June 24th, Lot 387.</div>
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During the period between 1870-1930 a relatively little-known but widespread form of folk art blossomed in America. It was called Tramp Art. Made of wooden cigar boxes or produce crates, these chip-carved and layered pieces were fashioned into frames, jewelry boxes, sewing caddies, and even furniture.</div>
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Though the term Tramp Art implies that they were created by hobos, they are believed, in fact, to have been created primarily by skilled but itinerant German or Scandinavian immigrants who traveled the country selling or trading their wares.</div>
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Tramp Art shares its vocabulary with quilts. Both are made from salvaged materials, and cut into patterns of primarily geometric shapes pieced together, and layered to create utilitarian objects. Both traditions could be done in the company of others with the “how-to” passed on orally.</div>
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Another <span data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" style="color: red;"><strong><a data-mce-href="http://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/lyon-and-turnbull/catalogue-id-srly10102" data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" href="http://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/lyon-and-turnbull/catalogue-id-srly10102" style="color: red;">AUCTION</a></strong></span> that will be of particular interest to needleworkers is being held by Lyon and Turnbull on July 6th, 2016. There are numerous lots (569 onwards) from the collection of the late Mrs Aldyth Cadoux. These lots are a very small fraction from her collection. Amongst the items are some very rare and collectable needlework books.</div>
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Aldyth Cadoux was an accomplished embroiderer, with expertise in church embroidery and gold thread work. She had extensive knowledge of fabrics, especially ancient fabrics, which she developed during her annual trips to the Middle East. Here she would advise on the age and type of cloth that was extracted from the tombs in Egypt.</div>
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She had an extensive library of embrodiery and textile books.</div>
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Alydth published articles in Arts of Asia magazine, in which she discussed the Asian domestic embroideries in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow. Friends described Aldyth Cadoux as "unusual, exotic, inspirational, remarkable, colourful and enthusiastic"</div>
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Here are some more images of Swedish flat weave tapestries and tramp art.</div>
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Normally we have a "Wordless Wednesday" but this week it is a "Wordy" one. Following <a data-mce-href="https://hands-across-the-sea-samplers.com/monday-morning-musings-4/" href="https://hands-across-the-sea-samplers.com/monday-morning-musings-4/"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" style="color: red;"><strong>MONDAY'S POST</strong></span></a> I received an email from Christine where she recounted a story she had read in an old 19th century Wisconsin newspaper sometime ago.</div>
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My curiosity was piqued and following a search of the internet here is the story in full for you to enjoy.</div>
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<i>Folks traveling the Oregon Trail looking for a new life left almost everything behind them when they made the 2000 mile journey in their covered wagons. As the trail grew harder, the valleys steeper, the mountains more treacherous, they started abandoning furniture and luxuries of all sorts by the wayside to make it easier to move the wagons. Many of their horses and cattle died on the trail. And many lost family members to sickness or accident.</i></div>
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<i>By the time the settlers reached Oregon, the few goods they had were precious indeed. And so it was for the people who made their new home in Pass Creek Canyon. The tiny settlement was so isolated that the villagers had no access to manufactured goods of any sort and had to make do with what they brought with them. And so, it turned out, they were soon down to their very last darning needle.</i></div>
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<i>Now darning needles, in those days, were used to sew clothing and darn socks and mend buttons that were torn off. For a whole community to have only one darning needle was a major concern. The settlers were very careful to keep the needle safe. They passed it from family to family, and for two or three days at a time, the women in each family would sew and darn as quickly as they could before passing the needle on to the next household.</i></div>
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<i>Then one day, little Jimmy Chitwood was assigned the task of carrying the needle to Grandmother Drain's cottage over the hillside. To keep the darning needle safe, his mother threaded it with bright red wool knotted firmly through the eye of the needle. Then she stuck it into a potato and gave the precious needle to her small son.</i></div>
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<i>As the little boy walked along the trail, he heard a rustling in the bushes. Ahead of him, a Mama bear and her two cubs ambled into view. Alarmed, Jimmy ducked behind a serviceberry bush, hoping the Mama bear wouldn't notice him and attack. He sat very still, trembling from head to toe, until all sounds of the bears had ceased. Then he crept back out onto the trail, checked carefully in both directions, and continued toward Grandmother Drain's cabin. And that's when he realized his hand was empty! He'd lost the potato with the precious darning needle stuck into it.</i></div>
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<i>Little Jimmy looked everywhere, but there were many serviceberry bushes, and he couldn't find the exact place where he'd left the trail. Soon the whole village turned out to look for the potato with the darning needle stuck into it. They combed the hillside for hours, and it was the despairing little Jimmy who finally caught a glimpse of red wool in the bracken and swooped inside to rescue the darning needle.</i></div>
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<i>But all good things come to an end. With so much heavy use and so much time spent stuck into the juice of the potato, the needle grew weak and it broke in Grandmother Drain's hand the day after it was found in the woods. The whole village was upset by the loss, but no one blamed Grandmother Drain for breaking it. It could have happened to any of them. But all sewing and mending in the village ceased from that day, and clothing grew tattered, socks and stockings had gaping holes in them, and folks shook their heads, wondering what to do.</i></div>
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<i>Little Jimmy Chitwood blamed himself bitterly for the loss of the darning needle. If only he hadn't lost it. If it hadn't been stuck so long in the potato, it might not have broken in Grandmother Drain's hand. He fretted and fretted about the lost darning needle, and nothing his parents said could comfort him.</i></div>
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<i>At that time, a young man in California decided he wanted a life of adventure. He came north to Portland Oregon, set himself up with a mule and wagon full of goods, and started roaming the mountains and vallleys, visiting villages and mining camps and farming communities. It so happened that a month to the day after the breaking of the last darning needle, he wandered into Pass Creek Canyon with his peddler's wagon.</i></div>
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<i>News of the peddler spread like wildfire through the community, and soon the young man was surrounded by families fingering his wares and talking excitedly. The young man soon learned about the last darning needle from Mrs. Chitwood, and he watched little Jimmy stroking the horse's mane and pretending not to listen as he mother talked of losing the needle when the bear appeared, and finding it again, and then losing it again when it broke.</i></div>
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<i>"Well, son," the young peddler said to Jimmy. "Do you intend to give your family and friends Christmas gifts this year?"</i></div>
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<i>Jimmy looked up from patting the mule, startled by the question. He hadn't thought about Christmas until that moment. He nodded uncertainly.</i></div>
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<i>"Well, son. How about you and I give everyone their Christmas presents a little early." He knelt down beside the lad and took a small packet out of the pocket of his coat. "Why don't you give one of these to each of the ladies in your town as an early Christmas gift?" And he handed the child the packet full of darning needles. "I think there are enough here for every family to have one."</i></div>
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<i>And so there were. Little Jimmy passed the needles out to each family, his face beaming with pride. And the peddler refused to accept a penny for the needles, insisting that they were a Christmas gift from Jimmy to the town.</i></div>
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<i>After that, Pass Creek Canyon became a regular stop on the peddler's route, and the farmers and settlers in the community began to prosper and do well in their new home. Never again did they run out of darning needles, which was a blessing to all!</i></div>
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Source - <span data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" style="color: red;"><strong><a data-mce-href="http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2009/05/the_last_darning_needle.html" data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" href="http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2009/05/the_last_darning_needle.html" style="color: red;">American Folklore</a></strong></span></div>
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After a forced break in stitching, due to back issues, it was sheer bliss to have some quality time with my needle over the last two evenings.</div>
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The model for the Scottish reproduction sampler is slowly growing. The border is so unusual being filled with all sorts of birds, squirrels, sheep and bee skeps. We expect to release the chart in the Autumn.</div>
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Yesterday I started the day with a post about quilting bees in the American mid west and last evening watched, on my ipad, the latest episode of the 2016 <i>Great British Sewing Bee</i>. As all good things are said to come in threes I thought we could look at another bee today - the <i>Waulking</i> or <i>Fulling</i> bee.</div>
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Cloth fresh from the loom must be shrunk before being used to make garments. Waulking is a method of shrinking the cloth that was practiced before the Industrial Revolution in the Scottish Highlands and Islands. In small, remote villages families would get together to shrink cloth from the loom, by wetting and pounding it.</div>
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Every culture had to shrink its cloth, Ancient Romans wet it in tubs or barrels and trod upon it; the Greeks put it under waterfalls.</div>
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Song was a central element of the waulking bees. When a task is physically demanding song can help make the work easier.</div>
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<strong>Waulking on the Isle of Skye</strong></div>
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<strong>Twelve of fourteen women, divided into two equal numbers, sit down each side of a long board, ribbed lengthways, placing the cloth on it: first they begin to work it backwards and forwards with their hands, singing at the same time. When they have tired they use their feet for the same purpose, and six or seven pair of naked feet are in the most violent agitation, working one against the other: as by this time they grew very earnest in their labours, the fury of the song rises; at length it arrives to such a pitch, that without breach of charity you would imagine a troop of female demoniacs to have the assembled - Thomas Pennant 1772</strong></div>
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The smell of wet wool and the boiled urine used to fix the dye would make this an unpleasant task for the women. The songs helped them maintain a steady rhythm whilst they worked in unison and kept their energy level up.</div>
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Waulking songs are much like folk songs. Different lyrics are set to the same tunes and there is a call and response or a leader sings a verse while everyone else joins in for the chorus. The waulking songs are set to a beat suitable for pounding on the wool.</div>
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In Series 1 of Outlander there is great scene of a waulking bee in full swing.</div>
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Thankfully for the modern day home weaver woolen cloth can be shrunk in a washing machine with no hot urine required !<br />
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