Applique Archives - Racaire's Workshop

10th to 15th century - medieval islamic inspired embroidery, Applique, Bayeux Stitch, Embroidery, Embroidery Patterns, Gulf Wars, Hand-Sewing, Islamic, Islamic laid and couched work, Kingdom of Meridies, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, OvO - Order of the velvet Owl - pouch, Projects, Refilsaum, SCA, SCA Events, Surface Couching, Wool-Silk Thread

my super secret project revealed: OvO pouch with medieval islamic inspired embroidery

2017/05/03

And finally a picture of the OvO pouch with the medieval islamic inspired embroidery which I put together for Gloria, my awesome mother-in-law. (OvO -> Order of the velvet Owl, Kingdom of Meridies, SCA) Yeah, this quite special piece of medieval islamic inspired embroidery was the super secret project on which I was working on from the first day of January until our favorite SCA event – Gulf Wars – in March. And at Gulf Wars Gloria finally got introduced into the Order of the velvet Owl. Just right before the knighting ceremony of her son, my dear husband. And not a moment too soon as keeping this project secret was killing me… 😉

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12th century projects, 12th century Saint Michael and the Dragon, Applique, Appliqué border embellishment, Embroidery, Gold Thread, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, Projects, Split Stitch

I finally finished my new 12th century “Saint Michael and the Dragon” banner!

2016/05/14

In my previous posting “Working at my 12th century “Saint Michael and the Dragon”“ banner I already showed you the very first steps needed to turn my finished 12th century inspired “Saint Michael and the Dragon” into a small banner for my living room. My last posting included information about how I chose the fabric and where I found the inspiration for the final shape for my banner project. Furthermore I also wrote about how I attached the embroidery to the surface and how I prepared the final shape of the banner…

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12th century projects, 12th century Saint Michael and the Dragon, Applique, Appliqué border embellishment, Books, Embroidery, Gold Thread, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, Projects, Zeitschrift für christliche Kunst

Working at my 12th century “Saint Michael and the Dragon” banner

2016/05/10

Some embroidery projects take more time than others until they finally get finished and my 12th century inspired “Saint Michael and the Dragon” embroidery was such an embroidery project. I already finished the 12th century inspired “Saint Michael and the Dragon” embroidery in the summer of 2014. Though I really liked the finished embroidery, it laid dormant in one of my project boxes ever since…

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14th century Meridian Cross Cyclas / sideless surcote, 14th century projects, Applique, Embroidery, Hand-Sewing, Medieval Embroidery, Projects

My new “Meridian Cross Cyclas” – a Manesse inspired 14th century cyclas / sideless surcote .2

2015/12/22

And today I have some pictures of my new 14th century cyclas / sideless surcote with the completed “Meridian Cross” appliqué work for you. 🙂 I still didn’t find the time to put on my new 14th century cyclas / sideless surcote and to take pictures of me wearing it but I can assure you that I didn’t forget about it and that it is still on my to-do-list.

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Racaire
14th century Meridian Cross Cyclas / sideless surcote, 14th century projects, Applique, Chain Stitch, Embroidery, Hand-Sewing, How to prepare patches for appliqué, How to use embroidery models / Schablonen, Medieval Embroidery, Projects

My new “Meridian Cross Cyclas” – a Manesse inspired 14th century cyclas / sideless surcote .1 – the appliqué embroidery

2015/11/20

Yeah, it’s true and no typo – I made a 14th century cylas / sideless surcote for me! Or how I call the newest addition to my wardrobe: my 14th century “Meridian Cross Cyclas”! 😀 How come? Well, while I was living in the kingdom of Drachenwald – the SCA group covering Europe, the middle East and South Africa – I wasn’t able to make it to many SCA events. Not that I didn’t want to but quite many of the events were out of my budget due to the required travel to the location in a rather far away country like Sweden, Finland, UK,… Therefore my normal event count per year was about 1 to maximal…

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14th century projects, 14th century XL hood for Pelican elevation, Applique, Appliqué border embellishment, Embroidery, Embroidery Patterns, Hand-Sewing, Kingdom of Meridies, Knight belts, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, Pelicans, Projects, Satin Stitch, SCA, Silver Thread, Stem Stitch, Surface Couching

White 14th century hood for a friends Pelican elevation – finished! :D

2015/10/29

And after all my recent postings about the progress of my friends 14th century hood with pelican & knighthood embroidery, I can finally present to you the finished 14th century hood! The picture at the left was taken shortly after my friend – Sir Thomas Blackmoore (sorry but I don’t remember all the other proper SCA titles he has) – was elevated to the Order of the Pelican.

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14th century projects, 14th century XL hood for Pelican elevation, Applique, Appliqué border embellishment, Basics, Embroidery, How to prepare patches for appliqué, Knight belts, Medieval Embroidery, Pelicans

White 14th century XL hood for a friends Pelican elevation – embroidery .4 – how I created the embroidered Pelican patches .2

2015/10/21

In my last posting – “White 14th century XL hood for a friends Pelican elevation – embroidery .4 – how I created the embroidered Pelican patches .1” – I showed you how I created the two different kinds of golden beaks for the embroidered pelicans. After this step and and after finishing the rest of the embroidery for the pelicans, I decided to add even more embroidery. Instead of removing the base fabric in-between the knighthood belt and the pelican embroidery, which didn’t have any appliqué or other kind of embroidery, I made the decision to fill this empty space with lovely purple silk/wool thread.

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14th century projects, 14th century XL hood for Pelican elevation, Applique, Embroidery, Gold Thread, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, Projects, Satin Stitch, Stem Stitch, Surface Couching

White 14th century XL hood for a friends Pelican elevation – embroidery .4 – how I created the embroidered Pelican patches .1

2015/10/19

In my last posting about the “white 14th century XL hood for a friends Pelican elevation – how I created the embroidered Pelican patches” I wrote about the different steps of how I prepared the basic pelican appliqué. Furthermore I also showed you several progress pictures of my embroidery work concerning this first steps. And today we take a close look at the very next step – of how I embroidered the two different kinds of golden beaks for the pelicans.

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Racaire
14th century projects, 14th century XL hood for Pelican elevation, Applique, Appliqué border embellishment, Embroidery, Embroidery Patterns, Gold Thread, Medieval Embroidery, Padded Satin Stitch, Pelicans, Projects, Satin Stitch, Stem Stitch, Surface Couching

White 14th century XL hood for a friends Pelican elevation – embroidery .4 – how I created the embroidered Pelican patches

2015/10/15

With this posting, after all the previous postings about the 14th century XL hood project for my friends Pelican elevation, I am finally reaching the last and major part of the embroidery for this hood project: …the pelican patches! In my last posting I already showed you the finished knight belt patches for the 14th century hood for my friends Pelican elevation. And as nice as the knight belt patches already looked like at this stage of the project, they all still looked quite empty, didn’t they – but no for long, that’s for sure… 😀

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Racaire
14th century projects, 14th century XL hood for Pelican elevation, Applique, Appliqué border embellishment, Embroidery, Embroidery Patterns, Knight belts, Materials, Padded Satin Stitch, Projects, Satin Stitch, Wool-Silk Thread

White 14th century XL hood for a friends Pelican elevation – embroidery .3 – how I created the embroidered knight belt patches .3 – embroidered belt buckles!

2015/10/10

And finally, after part #1 & part #2 of “how I created the embroidered knight belt patches”, I am getting to the 3rd and last part of the knight belt patches creation process. Yes, today I am going to show you how I created the embroidered belt buckles with a certain special effect. An effect which makes the belt buckles look a little bit more like real ones. 😀

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14th century projects, 14th century XL hood for Pelican elevation, Applique, Appliqué border embellishment, Embroidery, Embroidery Patterns, Knight belts, Medieval Embroidery, Projects, Surface Couching

White 14th century XL hood for a friends Pelican elevation – embroidery .3 – how I created the embroidered knight belt patches .2

2015/10/08

Yesterday I showed you my first work steps concerning the embroidered knight belt patches for the 14th century hood for my friends Pelican elevation at the Meridian Grand Tournament. And today I was quite busy again and therefore already have the second posting ready for you, which is showing the next steps of the creation process for the embroidered knight belt patches.

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Racaire
14th century projects, 14th century XL hood for Pelican elevation, Applique, Appliqué border embellishment, Craft with Racaire, Embroidery, Finishing technique for borders, Knight belts, Medieval Embroidery, Medieval Embroidery Hands On Tutorials, Medieval Embroidery Technique Tutorials, Medieval finishing technique for borders, Projects, Surface Couching

White 14th century XL hood for a friends Pelican elevation – embroidery .3 – how I created the embroidered knight belt patches .1

2015/10/07

I hope you enjoyed yesterdays short calligraphy sidestep as I am now moving on to the next step of the embroidery for the 14th century XL hood project for my friends Pelican elevation at the Meridian Grand Tournament: How I created the embroidered knight belt patches Though the embroidered knight belts might look rather simple, as you can see them at the picture on the left, they still demanded a lot of thought, time and stitches. But well, you know, I like challenges and this combined Order of the Chivalry and Pelican patches were definitely a very interesting personal challenge for me as I normally rarely do appliqué embroidery.

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14th century projects, 14th century XL hood for Pelican elevation, Applique, Appliqué border embellishment, Embroidery, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, Projects, Silver Thread, Surface Couching

White 14th century XL hood for a friends Pelican elevation – working at the embroidery .2 – appliqué border embellishment with surface couching finished

2015/09/08

I know, I didn’t post anything during the last week but I hope you will excuse it as I was working like crazy at the 14th century hood project for my friends Pelican elevation and also accompanied my dear husband to an event – “Boar Hunt” – in Tennessee. 🙂 And I am very glad to say that all the hard work totally payed off again! I managed to finish the last stitches of the surface couching work along the borders of the appliqué embroidery.

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Racaire
14th century projects, 14th century XL hood for Pelican elevation, Applique, Appliqué border embellishment, Embroidery, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, Projects, Silver Thread, Surface Couching

White 14th century XL hood for a friends Pelican elevation – working at the embroidery .2 – appliqué border embellishment with surface couching .2

2015/08/27

It is amazing how much embroidery progress can be achieved when you really want it and set your mind on it. As my husband can confirm, I really devoted myself to this project during the last days. With approximately 5 to 7 working hours per day, I managed to accomplish great progress in the rather short amount of time since I started the surface couching work for the appliqué border embellishment for the 14th century XL hood project.

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14th century projects, 14th century XL hood for Pelican elevation, Applique, Appliqué border embellishment, Embroidery, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, Projects, Silver Thread, Surface Couching

White 14th century XL hood for a friends Pelican elevation – working at the embroidery .2 – surface couching work started

2015/08/25

Yesterday, after completing the recent appliqué work for the 14th century XL hood project for my friends Pelican elevation, I was able to finally move on to the surface couching embroidery for the appliqué border. And with the surface couching embroidery the fun part of this hood project just started for me. Yes, you can tell – surface couching for the win!

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