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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]




