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As some may know from previous posts, I have been working on an elizabethan blackworked coif (using these instructions). The embroidery is nearly done, so the next step is to cut it out, hem and assemble. But one of the touches I would like to do around the edge of the front is some lace. Thinking a very basic design (imagine overlayed half circles ( Read more... )

Nearly reached the other side of the coif (at the top). As such I am starting to have to contemplate what to do after finishing the blackwork*.

So, links with extant coif images and people discussing the finishing:

Overview of blackwork
The Purple files: Blackwork coif
A Sixteenth Century Embroidered Coif (includes lining discussion)
Extreme ( Read more... )

The not quite so mad project is an Elizabethan blackwork coif. Silk on linen, using the grape and flower and knotwork design from the Jane Bostocke sampler (another sampler image here.

( Progress so far and links to finished leg binding weaving (and 3 pictures) )

So, after being started in 2001, as a 1 year going out anniversary present for Z, the blackworked chess board (old progress picture) (completely not documentable :)) is now backed and finished.

Only a little under a month since the 7 year anniversary.

Now need to come up with some chess pieces...

So is it bad (or just nuts) to practice blackwork for which the final will be on 32 count linen, on 72 count cotton ( Read more... )

Minor grumps ( Read more... )

That blackwork I mentioned, pictures now up here onwards.

( One or two pretty pictures... )

Playing with the digital camera again but since our internet is currently slow and grouchy you don't get any of the pictures (a brief catalogue of the unfinished blackwork projects currently underway (appart from the chemise, but that is a tale for another time ( Read more... )