Medieval Embroidery Archives - Racaire's Workshop

10th to 15th century - medieval islamic inspired embroidery, Bayeux Stitch, Embroidery, Embroidery Patterns, Islamic, Islamic laid and couched work, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, OvO - Order of the velvet Owl - pouch, Projects, Silver Thread, Stem Stitch, Surface Couching, Surface Couching 2:1, Wool-Silk Thread

…my medieval islamic inspired embroidery project – the embroidery .1

2017/09/13

Yes, I know, I was quite silent recently. But I had a very good reason for my break as I’ve been working like crazy on a fitted 12th century silk bliaut (dress) for the future Queen of the Kingdom of Meridies. …and like always – when it comes to special projects like these – the time frame for completion is very limited. The bliaut has to be finished before the upcoming coronation event – preferably sooner than later. However, you find me relatively relaxed as I already made some great progress. Her silk underdress is already finished as well as a good part of the bliaut. I am quite optimistic that…

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10th to 15th century - medieval islamic inspired embroidery, Bayeux Stitch, Embroidery, Islamic laid and couched work, Medieval Embroidery, OvO - Order of the velvet Owl - pouch, Projects, Refilsaum, Wool-Silk Thread

…my medieval islamic inspired embroidery project – the embroidery

2017/08/12

And today I am going to show you more pictures of my medieval islamic inspired embroidery for Gloria’s OvO pouch. Due to the time restraints of this project I didn’t get to take many pictures. However, I did my best to capture some of the more interesting parts for you. Therefore I hope that you’ll enjoy my progress pictures as much as I enjoyed working on this project.

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10th to 15th century - medieval islamic inspired embroidery, Bayeux Stitch, Embroidery, Embroidery Patterns, Islamic, Islamic laid and couched work, Medieval Embroidery, OvO - Order of the velvet Owl - pouch, Projects

…my medieval islamic inspired embroidery project – from the medieval inspiration to an actual pattern or “an interesting journey” .3

2017/07/19

And once again a posting about my most recent embroidery project – my medieval islamic inspired embroidery project for my dear mother-in-law, Gloria. I can’t tell you how great it feels to find some time and peace to post about this project again. It is a very special project which is very close to my heart. I intended to write my next posting about it earlier but then life happened. Yeah, the last two weeks were quite rough on me. I twisted my ankle quite badly and if that wasn’t already enough, I also got a really bad stomach bug. However, there is no cause for concern – my ankle as well…

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10th to 15th century - medieval islamic inspired embroidery, Embroidery, Embroidery Patterns, Islamic, Islamic laid and couched work, Medieval Art, Medieval Embroidery, Museum, Museum - Online Collections, OvO - Order of the velvet Owl - pouch, Projects, Thoughts about working with medieval patterns...

…my medieval islamic inspired embroidery project – from the medieval inspiration to an actual pattern or “an interesting journey” .1

2017/06/20

Today we’re taking another close look at my very first medieval islamic inspired embroidery project – the OvO pouch for Gloria, my dear mother-in-law. The path which starts with the initial inspiration and finally leads to the finished project is not always easy. Sometimes one has to follow a quite difficult way and get rid of one obstacle after another. And yes, this project was one of those not quite so easy ones and sent me on an interesting journey…

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10th to 15th century - medieval islamic inspired embroidery, Bayeux Stitch, Embroidery, Embroidery Links, Embroidery Patterns, Islamic, Islamic laid and couched work, Materials, Medieval Art, Medieval Embroidery, Medieval Embroidery, Museum, Museum - Online Collections, OvO - Order of the velvet Owl - pouch, Projects, Refilsaum, Wool-Silk Thread

Gloria’s OvO pouch with medieval islamic inspired embroidery – my period inspiration :D

2017/06/05

My previous posting, “super secret project revealed: OvO pouch with medieval islamic inspired embroidery“, already contained a sneak peek at this very special embroidery project. And today I am going to show you the period inspiration for my medieval islamic inspired embroidery project. 🙂 But let’s talk about the project first. When I took on this project, I was already aware that it wouldn’t be a simple task for me. Being so close to the recipient – Gloria, my beloved mother-in-law – made this embroidery project easier but also much more difficult at the same time.

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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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14th century hood with roses for Elisenda de Luna, 14th century projects, Embroidery, Gold embroidery / gold work, Gold Thread, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, Projects, Silk Thread, Surface Couching

More about the rose embroidery for my friends hood .5.3 – some gold thread embellishment for the border of the rose leaf :)

2017/02/02

The days are rushing by and another week is coming to its end. Yeah, the weekend is close and I know quite too well that I have less and less time left for my super secret embroidery project. But that’s fine as I am making really good progress. In fact I am just some days away from finishing the main part of the project – the embroidery – which normally takes the longest… And I will need any day I can spare for the other project on my to do list before Gulf Wars. No, it’s not another sewing project for my husband or I for war. I promised to make a scroll for…

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

More about the rose embroidery for my friends hood .5.2 – some gold thread embellishment for the border of the rose leaf :)

2017/01/26

Woohoo! I am working on a super secret project at the moment! 😀 …and though I can’t really share any information or progress pictures concerning the new project until it’s finished and the recipient got it, you really don’t need to worry that I might take a break from posting until the project is finished. On the contrary! I took so many pictures of my recent embroidery and sewing projects that I can keep you quite busy until I can finally reveal my new, super secret project. 🙂 Which brings me right to the topic of todays posting. In my last two postings I showed you my two work steps concerning the silk shading embroidery for the rose…

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14th century hood with roses for Elisenda de Luna, 14th century projects, Craft with Racaire, Embroidery, Long and short Stitch, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, Misc. step by step embroidery tutorials, Projects, Silk Shading, Silk Thread

More about the rose embroidery for my friends hood .5.1 – the rose leaf embroidery or my first “silk shading” :)

2017/01/12

In my last posting “More about the rose embroidery for my friends hood .5 – the rose leaf embroidery or my first “silk shading” 🙂” I showed you how I established the foundation for the silk shading technique by creating an initial layer along the outer border of one of my rose leaves. And today we are going to take a look at the second step concerning the rose leaf and the above mentioned silk shading technique.

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14th century hood with roses for Elisenda de Luna, 14th century projects, Crewelwork, Embroidery, Long and short Stitch, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, Projects, Silk Shading, Silk Thread

More about the rose embroidery for my friends hood .5 – the rose leaf embroidery or my first “silk shading” :)

2017/01/01

I wish you all a happy new year! And hope that you had a good and enjoyable “slide” from the old year into the new one, as we tend to say in Austria! 😀 Looking retrospectively at the last year, it amazes me how fast 2016 actually went by. The last year was very busy, as it was filled with many different projects, research, learning, a lot of laughter and love but also some tears as some of us had to say good bye to some dear friends and family members…

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Embroidery, Embroidery Links, Medieval Embroidery, Medieval Embroidery, Surface Couching, Voided Work, White Work

Interesting links concerning medieval embroidery….

2016/11/30

After receiving a question from a good friend about books concerning 13th century embroidery and having some fun searching for academic papers related to embroidery, it seems like it is time again to share some interesting medieval embroidery related links with you. 🙂 First I would like to share a link which should be well known by now but just in case you are not aware of it yet – here it is again, my most favorite website about medieval embroidery: Historical Needlework Resources (http://medieval.webcon.net.au) This website is actually pretty old compared to many other websites but it is still one of the best ones when it comes to sources and pictures of medieval embroidery.…

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14th century hood with roses for Elisenda de Luna, 14th century projects, Embroidery, Embroidery Patterns, Gold embroidery / gold work, Gold Thread, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, Padded Satin Stitch, Projects, Rose, Satin Stitch, Silk Thread, Surface Couching

14th century hood for a friend – 5th rose finished! :)

2016/11/22

Wooohooo! I am very glad to say that I just finished another embroidered rose for my friends 14th century hood project! Recently I was quite busy with other projects – like sewing a hood for our beautiful Queen Oda and painting a shield for my husband for the Meridian Crown Tournament – but whenever I found some idle time inbetween, I continued working on the roses for my friends 14th century hood. And it finally paid off – though it seemed to take forever, the 5th rose is finally finished too!

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14th century hood with roses for Elisenda de Luna, 14th century projects, Embroidery, Embroidery Patterns, Gold Thread, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, Pelicans, Projects, Surface Couching

More about the rose embroidery for my friends hood .4 – a little pelican and the red silk embroidery around the middle…

2016/11/07

It’s time again for some embroidery. The focus of todays posting will be on some red silk embroidery and a tiny embroidered pelican. I hope you are just as excited as I am. Today I am going to show you the technique which I used to embroider the red embellishment along the border of the middle part of the roses. And that’s not all – I also have a sneak peek at the little, very cute pelican which I added to the middle of one of the roses. 😀

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

More about the rose embroidery for my friends hood .3 – my surface couching embroidery for the center of the roses…

2016/10/27

It took some time but today I finally have my third part of my rose embroidery tutorial ready for you. Todays posting will show you how I used Surface Couching to embroider the central section of the roses for my friends 14th century hood. 😀 But before we get to the embroidery tutorial, I would like to write a little about the last days and weeks as they were quite a journey for me. As some of you might recall from my recent postings, I was taking one test after another to qualify for my GED diploma. And though all these tests drained me mentally, I am excited to tell that all the hard work and concentration finally…

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12th century fillet - black with white silk embroidery, 12th century projects, Chain Stitch, Embroidery, Kingdom of Meridies, Medieval Embroidery, Projects, SCA, Silk Thread, Stem Stitch

My new black 12th century fillet with white silk embroidery! :D

2016/10/16

Gloria, my dear mother-in-law, took a lovely selfie of us both at the most recent SCA event – Coronation. This cute selfie allows me to finally show you my most recent 12th century project “in use”: My new black 12th century fillet with white silk embroidery! 😀 How come? Well, after completing my new grey/black 12th century dress, I longed for a slightly different 12th century headgear than my ‘normal’ red silk fillet with pearl embroidery. And as the making of a new fillet does not take very long, I decided to simply make a fillet that matched at least one of the colors of my new dress…

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