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Title: Just for fun: Cross stitched blackwork partlet
Post by: gem on February 15, 2011, 04:03:51 PM
Saw this as I was browsing a French needlework designer's site:

(http://www.amonamipierre.net/amapshop/upload/110707_004622_PEEL_9WfKEw.jpg)

The designer is A Mon Ami Pierre, and this chart is "Le Col Medicis." (http://www.amonamipierre.net/amapshop/achat/produit_details.php?id=1115) I don't speak French, but I'm guessing that's "Medici Collar."

I guess that's one option if you don't have the time to hand-stitch an actual partlet!  ;D

Title: Re: Just for fun: Cross stitched blackwork partlet
Post by: Rowan MacD on February 15, 2011, 04:13:15 PM
 Pretty!  I need to figure out how to produce a Blackwork, or blackworking looking partlet. I don't see having the  time to do all that stitching, and I can't find a site that sells blouses, chemises or partlets already decorated.
  *sigh* 
Title: Re: Just for fun: Cross stitched blackwork partlet
Post by: gem on February 15, 2011, 04:24:06 PM
Here you go, Rowen:

Thistlebees (http://www.thistlebees.com/basefile/partlet.htm)
Title: Re: Just for fun: Cross stitched blackwork partlet
Post by: Rowan MacD on February 15, 2011, 06:16:45 PM
Quote from: gem on February 15, 2011, 04:24:06 PM
Here you go, Rowen:

Thistlebees (http://www.thistlebees.com/basefile/partlet.htm)
ooooooooo......<3

There used to be a site (I could have sworn it was threads of time) that sold blouses with embroidery on the sleeves.  Threads of time does not have them now, if they ever did.

  Here's an interesting link...I ran across this a while back.  Fake blackwork pattern drawn onto the fabric.   She placed net over it to make is look like stitching from a distance.

http://www.naergilien.info/pelicandiary/partlet_sleeves.htm

Title: Re: Just for fun: Cross stitched blackwork partlet
Post by: gem on February 15, 2011, 06:36:05 PM
No, they still have them (http://www.threadsoftime.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TOT&Category_Code=LA-CE-CHEMISE).  :) If you go to the last page of that section, that's where their original embroidered Ren shirts are. 

This one's (http://www.threadsoftime.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TOT&Product_Code=TudorRose&Category_Code=LA-CO-CHEMISE) pretty, though.
Title: Re: Just for fun: Cross stitched blackwork partlet
Post by: Rowan MacD on February 15, 2011, 08:43:07 PM
Quote from: gem on February 15, 2011, 06:36:05 PM
No, they still have them (http://www.threadsoftime.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TOT&Category_Code=LA-CE-CHEMISE).  :) If you go to the last page of that section, that's where their original embroidered Ren shirts are. 

This one's (http://www.threadsoftime.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TOT&Product_Code=TudorRose&Category_Code=LA-CO-CHEMISE) pretty, though.
The second one is the one I was looking for, Thanks!
Title: Re: Just for fun: Cross stitched blackwork partlet
Post by: Rowan MacD on February 15, 2011, 08:45:14 PM
Quote from: gem on February 15, 2011, 04:24:06 PM
Here you go, Rowen:

Thistlebees (http://www.thistlebees.com/basefile/partlet.htm)
Do you have any idea what the prices run?  They don't give any clue.
Title: Re: Just for fun: Cross stitched blackwork partlet
Post by: gem on February 15, 2011, 09:30:10 PM
I don't, but IIRC, I first heard about them here, from a forum member. If you started a new thread just about Thistlebees, maybe you'll get some responses from folks who've worked with them.

...Or you could always email the company!
Title: Re: Just for fun: Cross stitched blackwork partlet
Post by: Syrilla on February 15, 2011, 10:43:59 PM
I have used thislebees a few times for the theatre, and an have enjoyed each item.  In fact I have a pair of black worked cuffs that have never been used... hummmmmm...... I think her cuffs were about $30 for the full ones.
Title: Re: Just for fun: Cross stitched blackwork partlet
Post by: Lady Renee Buchanan on February 16, 2011, 06:41:40 AM
Our friend Richard bought an embroidered chemise at Stronghold (in Illinois) in October and paid $40 for it.  It is beautiful.  Collar, cuffs, and sleeves embroidered.  It was on sale from $75.  I can't remember the vendor, so I'll try to remember to ask him.  This same vendor goes to several of the smaller Midwestern faires in the Iowa/Illinois/Wisconsin area.

You might want to renmail to wildthingjew, a member of this forum, as she knows the vendor and has several of the chemises, and each one is well-made and gorgeous.
Title: Re: Just for fun: Cross stitched blackwork partlet
Post by: Master James on February 16, 2011, 10:02:02 AM
In case anyone has an embroidery machine and would like to make their own blackwork chemises, you can purchase blackwork CDs that will work with most embroidery machines right here: http://ladymaerwynn.com/  Hope this helps as well.
Title: Re: Just for fun: Cross stitched blackwork partlet
Post by: Rowan MacD on February 16, 2011, 12:17:14 PM
Quote from: gem on February 15, 2011, 09:30:10 PM
If you started a new thread just about Thistlebees, maybe you'll get some responses from folks who've worked with them.
...Or you could always email the company!
I sent them an email too ^_^ !