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14th century hood with roses for Elisenda de Luna, 14th century projects, Basics, Craft with Racaire, Embroidery, Gold embroidery / gold work, Gold Thread, How to start a new thread, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, Medieval Embroidery Hands On Tutorials, Misc. step by step embroidery tutorials, Projects, Rose embroidery for Elisenda's 14th century hood, Silk Thread, Surface Couching

More about the rose embroidery for my friends hood .2 – starting the surface couching

2016/10/03

Wow! What a week! During the last days I was struggling with fighting off a head cold as well as finally facing my driving test. As easy as embroidery and some other things might come to me, I really struggle a lot when it comes to taking any kind of tests. And the driving test, which took place yesterday, was definitely no difference. I was a complete wreck before, during and after the test and not even my dear husband was able to calm me down…

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12th century belt, 12th century projects, Basics, Embroidery, How to do pearl embroidery, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, Pearl embroidery, Pearls, Projects

12th century belt for my 12th century wedding dress – pearl embroidery .3

2016/03/08

During the last weeks I was busy preparing for Gulf Wars and actually wanted to work on my “leg armor” for SCA “Heavy Fighting” today. Given the amount of layers and the thickness of the material I decided to do the sewing with the help of my sewing machine. But, well, after several hours facing a never ending fight with my sewing machine, I think I finally have to face the sad truth. My sewing machine really hates me and doesn’t want to cooperate with me at all. *sigh* But life is too precious to end the day feeling frustrated and defeated. Therefore I finally decided to stop fighting my sewing machine…

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12th century belt, 12th century projects, Basics, Craft with Racaire, Embroidery, How to do pearl embroidery, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, Medieval Embroidery Hands On Tutorials, Pearl embroidery, Pearls, Projects

12th century belt for my 12th century wedding dress – pearl embroidery .1

2016/02/20

And today let’s talk about one of my other favorite topics besides Klosterstich and surface couching – pearl embroidery! 😀 Well, pearls per se were and still are something very special. Their availability is quite limited and their price is rather high due to the natural production process. Besides the beautiful appearance and shine pearls possess naturally, their rather restricted availability as well as their quite high monetary value might have added to their great appeal in the medieval age. I think that the usage of pearls for jewelry or pearl embroidery used to reflected the wealth of the person who could actually afford to use them in either high quality (large, round and with a perfect surface appearance)…

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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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#2 Fast & easy Pouch, 14th century projects, Basics, Chain Stitch, Chain Stitch for Hand-Sewing, Craft with Racaire, Embroidery, Hand-Sewing, How to start a new thread, Pouch for my 14th century inspired Backgammon Game, Projects

Craft with Racaire – Project 2 – fast and easy pouch tutorial – Step 3.5 – Chain Stitch & how to start a new thread

2014/06/29

We are already very close to finish the hand sewing of the fast and easy pouch. It took several steps and detailed photo tutorials but I have great news for you: there are just two small steps concerning the hand sewing part left. 😀 The last posting was about the practical application of chain stitch as a decorative hand sewing for the top of this pouch project. But well, no sewing or embroidery thread is endless therefore: Todays motto is: “Chain Stitch & how to start a new thread” Todays detailed photo tutorial is especially devoted to the readers of my blog who are new to hand sewing or hand embroidery (and the chain stitch). The following tutorial will show you how…

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#2 Fast & easy Pouch, 14th century projects, Basics, Craft with Racaire, Hand-Sewing, How to work with rapports, Pouch, Pouch for my 14th century inspired Backgammon Game, Projects

Craft with Racaire – Project #2 – Pouch #1 – fast and easy pouch tutorial (handsewn) & how to work with “rapports”

2014/03/17

I know that many of you really have enjoyed my pouch-projects and I guess that some of you miss my “old” fast and easy pouch tutorial. Therefore I started a new project for you and also for my “Craft with Racaire” section: My fast and easy pouch tutorial Before I introduce you the more difficult techniques and we start with the embroidered and fancy pouches, I decided to show you a simple way how to make a hand-sewn pouch for yourself, for a gift, your favorite card game,… or whatever you want to store in it. Btw. this is a tutorial for a hand-sewn pouch which you can easily embroider and…

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14th century French pouch 1, 14th century projects, Basics, Embroidery, How to match colours, Medieval Embroidery, Projects

14th century French Pouch .1 – which color for the hood? …an easy way to match colors

2014/03/15

Well, today I have a very special topic for you concerning my 14th century French pouch: “Which color for the hood?”. Furthermore this is also a very good reason for another posting about very “basic techniques”. In particular I want to show you “an easy way to match colors” today. 🙂 But first things first – as you can imagine, I have many possible colors which I could use for the “hood” in the 2nd section of my 14th century French pouch. Well, it’s great to have so many colors to chose from but that’s also the point where the “grande miseria” begins. Now I have to decide which color out of…

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14th century French pouch 1, 14th century projects, Basics, Embroidery, How to "park" threads, Medieval Embroidery, Projects

14th century French Pouch .1 – sneak peek progress .8 & short basic embroidery hint

2014/03/10

…a new week just started and what is better then starting a new week with new progress and another “short basic embroidery hint”? …yeah, I have again new embroidery progress concerning my 14th century French pouch for you – enjoy! 🙂 …as you can see at the following pictures – section 1 & 2 are nearly finished and I already started with section 3:

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Basics, Embroidery, German Brick Stitch, How to start a new thread

Medieval Embroidery Basics – how to start a new thread / “sew in the thread” :)

2014/03/05

I normally don’t care much about the “basic” techniques I use because… Well, actually there is no because – I “just”use them. Though they come rather natural to me, it seems like they are not so basic to others like I thought. While I was chatting with a member of my blog about my recent tutorials, I was rather surprised to get to know that what I considered “common” knowledge was rather new to her. Therefore I decided for the future also to take a look at my simple and basic steps and to share them from time to time. I am starting today by adding the new category “Basic” to…

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