See this? This is a design by Jane Zimmerman called "Angulation 1" which is the newest class offered in cyberspace through the Shining Needle Society. Angulation 1 is worked on congress cloth using silk or cotton floss and metallic threads. If you are interested in the class, you need to join the Shining Needle Society (it's a Yahoo Group) and look at the class information.
I'll quote the important bits here from Kate Gaunt's posting announcing the class to SNS members--
"This class explores techniques of Far Eastern and Western silk andmetal thread embroidery through the ages in addition to traditionalcanvas work. The model of this 10" by 11" challenging geometric design, inspired by a Danish rug, was executed on gray congress cloth in gray-white and two color families of silk(or cotton) with metallics to coordinate with the silk colors chosen. The techniques include overlaid Florentine, burden stitch, trellis on satin ground, Japanese novelty pattern, fly stitch, web stitch, eyelet stitch and many other canvas stitch variations.
Since the color combinations for this design are endless and such fun to select, Jane decided to offer the project as a chartpak only. Use Soie d'Alger and/or Needlepoint Inc. and/or Vikki Clayton's hand-dyed silk, or cotton floss with Kreinik metallic braid -- supplies that can
be found easily at your local needlework store. You will need 6 values of silk (or cotton) and one of metallic with congress cloth of a color that coordinates with your silk choices. (A supply list is provided upon enrollment in the class.)"
This is a Big Deal. Jane Zimmerman is retiring from teaching except for virtual classes like this, In other words, classes that were always limited are now expanding into cyberspace without Jane's having to travel. Jane has also started a fabulous website where we'll be able to order her books, see her designs and look at diagrams of stitches.
Have fun exploring.
http://www.janezimmerman.com/
Those of you who are like me and not into geometrics, let me tell you these things are really beautiful in person. If they are well executed, the shine of the silk and metal threads is incredible. They take ordinary geometric patterns into the realm of art.
Jane's books are very popular with really talented stitchers I know. I've not seen any of them in person but here's a review of one.
http://accesscommodities.com/
This is a big deal and a great deal for stitchers everywhere. Thanks, Jane!
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