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Blackwork on a constructed shirt

Started by Sorcha, November 07, 2008, 02:55:18 PM

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Lady Renee Buchanan

Quote from: Goody on November 12, 2008, 09:14:29 AM
Quote from: Muffin on November 07, 2008, 03:23:36 PM
Sorcha, talk to Goody!! She is awesomely fantastic at Blackwork!!!

Well, I wouldn't go that far but Ive tried my hand at a few items. As i don't have a lightbox I taped my pattern (copied and blown up from blackwork archives) to my glass dinig rm table. Then i put a buffet lamp underneath and traced using a sewing pencil/pen.

If your fabric is thin enough  to see the pattern through you could do the same. my only regret on my chemise sleeves is that I made the stitches bigger and they catch on jewelry and such.

I agree that Goody is incredible with a needle.  We saw her chemise at Bristol this summer, and I was blown away.  It is absolutely gorgeous.  As is all the other garb she has made.  She is a fantastic seamstress!
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So I think if you pick apart the side seams of this done Shirt you can put your design onto the shirt without worrying about the 3D effect.
You can then spread out the sleeves and add the design, then use either silk like Splendor Silk Floss.  There are many floss out there and you can of course use the stuff from Michaels as well.  So there is no real need for you to 'have silk'.
http://treenwaysilks.com/mini_skeins.html

You can also add to the cuffs by doing the embroidery and adding it to the current cuff.

Also if you have some extra money??

Check out this Janet Arnold's Book on Shirts and Smocks and Neck stuff has just been published!!  You have to order from the UK but heck? It is so worth it, mine arrived while I was in Alaska, so I just now had the chance to look through it.  It is stupendous! YUMMY and this one has color pictures!!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Patterns-Fashion-construction-neckwear-accessories/dp/0333570820/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227762722&sr=8-1




Good Luck,
Cilean

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operafantomet

I second the suggestion of "Patterns of Fashion 4". It's a lovely, lovely book, with lots of nice closeup pictures.

Lady Kathleen of Olmsted

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If  this newest Janet Arnold book is not on Amazon US or Half Price.com by next March, someone I know is going to England next March. I will have her get a copy for me. The Corset making book looks interesting as well.

Hmm!!  So many books, so little money!!! ;)
"As with Art as in Life, nothing succeeds like excess.".....Oscar Wilde

operafantomet

Quote from: Lady Kathleen of Olmsted on November 27, 2008, 09:31:07 AM
If  this newest Janet Arnold book is not on Amazon US or Half Price.com by next March, someone I know is going to England next March. I will have her get a copy for me. The Corset making book looks interesting as well.

Hmm!!  So many books, so little money!!! ;)
This link might be of some comfort?
http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/workbox/workbox.htm

Tygrkat

#20
This may belong in another place {if so, my apologies, and feel free to move it, mods} but since I got the pattern I used from this thread, I thought I'd share my results here!  :)







This is my first attempt at blackwork. I think I've read that it should ideally look the same front and back - it doesn't even come close  :P - and counting stitches was out as the fabric I used was just leftover from another project. 


The pattern I used is here : http://www.blackworkarchives.com/bw_pome.html .


I traced a pattern onto the fabric directly and then stitched over it...I know that isn't really how you're supposed to do it, but I really haven't done any embroidery in over 10 years (and didn't do much to speak of before then...lol!) and I just wanted to get my fingers used to those motions again...it was LOADS of fun and I'm looking forward toward improving my technique (after another 'refresher' piece or two!  ;) }


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Quote from: Tygrkat33 on January 11, 2009, 09:15:25 PM
I traced a pattern onto the fabric directly and then stitched over it...I know that isn't really how you're supposed to do it

Lovely!  Well done!  In surface embroidery (vs counted work like cross stitch), you absolutely DO mark the pattern onto the fabric first.  In period, they used a technique called "pouncing," where they had a little cloth bag full of some kind of dusty substance, and the pattern was perforated.  They'd lay the pattern over the fabric, and gently tap the bag-of-dust against the stencil pattern, so there was a faint dotted impression of the pattern on the cloth.

Tygrkat

#22
Thank You Gem!  I am quite proud to have completed it so soon after I started it (I finished it in a couple of sittings) especially given there are incomplete projects (most from last winter :-\ ) looming in my closet...


"Pouncing" (reminds me of my kitten ^_^) sounds like a great way to transfer patterns...I wonder what one would use as a modern equivalent?

I taped the pattern to the back of the fabric (already on the hoop) and shined my husband's giagantic flash light behind it ( and held it with my knees  :P) and drew the pattern on with a fine-point marker...there has to be a much easier way...LOL!!

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Well, that's how I do it, too (altho' I use the sliding glass door and a bright sunny day. LOL  Milord got a light box for Christmas, though....).  I know you can still buy pouncing supplies from needlework suppliers.  A modern option is to do an iron-on transfer--they sell iron-on transfer pens/pencils at JoAnn.