I don’t have a huge collection of 19th or 20th century sewing tools, just a select number of things I have inherited or found at vintage fairs. But I have meet people who have a passionate love of collecting sewing tools, and they have some truly amazing items. But aside from that what would Jane [...]
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What would Jane Austen keep in her sewing box?
Posted in Design, Dress, Embroidery, History, Jane Austen, Quilting, Uncategorized, tagged 19th century, craft, dress, Embroidery, fabric, fashion, regency, Regency fabrics, satin stitch, sewing, sewing tools, Victorian Crafts on February 24, 2012 |
Caring For Your Collection
Posted in Architecture, Design, Embroidery, History, tagged 19th century, australia, Ballarat Fire Station, Ballarat Heritage Weekend, Ballarat things to see, Ballarat Town Hall, craft, Embroidery, Loreto Convent, Victorian Crafts, Victorian Embroidery on May 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Source: Flickr – Maguis & David I have been greatly looking forward to the Ballarat Heritage Weekend - it looks like a wonderful opportunity to take a sneaky peak into some of the gorgeous Victorian buildings. High on my list of ‘must- sees’ is the chapel at the Loreto Convent which I have been led to believe is [...]
Wanted: Model Stitchers
Posted in Design, Embroidery, Uncategorized, tagged design, Embroidery, jobs for embroiders, jobs for stitchers, model stitchers, replicate on November 3, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I am looking for a model stitcher or two to replicate some of my designs that I’ve already stitched myself (but in different colours) and stitch up some new designs I’m working on. What is a model stitcher: a person who embroiders the designs of another person. Some model stitchers also embroider patterns out of [...]
Regency Inspired Embroideries
Posted in Design, Embroidery, tagged designs, Embroidery, pattern books, satin stitch, wall paper on October 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of the many creative skills expected of a Regency gentlewoman was the ability to work ‘fancy work’ – fine pieces of embroidery in a range of styles from silk embroidery, whitework and all sorts of surface work. It was perfectly acceptable to take a piece of fancy work embroidery with you when making an [...]
200 Years of Decorative Arts
Posted in Design, Embroidery, Jane Austen, Quilting, tagged 1920s, 1930s, 1940s crafts, applique, craft, Embroidery, Jennifer Isaacs, Patchwork, pokerwork, Quilting, regency, silk, Tapestry, Victorian Embroidery, women on September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At one of my talks earlier in the year, a lovely fellow crafter asked me about how she would find out what kinds of craft her ancestors had worked. I pointed her in the direction of an interesting book on Needlework in Australia (Marion Fletcher, 1989), but another book is a bit of a favorite [...]
Quilled Hair, Shades & Berlin Wool Work
Posted in Embroidery, Jane Austen, tagged Beading, Berlin Wool Work, Carpetwork, Embroidery, human hair, Lanyon Homestead, Patchwork, quilling, Quilting, sewing, Tapestry, Victorian Crafts, Victorian Embroidery, Wickerwork on July 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’m giving a Victorian Embroidery craft workshop at Lanyon Homestead in Canberra on the 25 July so I’m busy doing my research about the links between Victorian Embroidery and the Lanyon Homestead. The collection is not original to the site but the curators at the time it was established as a museum in the 1980s [...]
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