Caskets and More to Enjoy

Tricia Nguyễn has updated her Thistle Threads website and added a Student Gallery where you can admire the reproduction embroidery items, many caskets, her students have created.

https://thistle-threads.myshopify.com/pages/student-gallery

There are five pages of photographs.  To move to another page, click on "Gallery" just under the Thistle Threads header and pick another gallery page.  

If something particularly catches your eye, look for links to further information and videos.  Some of the photos have extra photos you can access from the first photo.  Look for side arrows or dots on the bottom of the photo.

Have fun exploring the creativity of these amazing works.

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow

Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com

and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com

© Copyright February 18, 2025 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Greetings from the 17th Century

If any stitch guide writer or needlepoint teacher is on your Christmas list, I know what to buy them.

If you have a lot of money to spend, enroll them in the Cabinet of Curiosities class from Thistle Threads so they can learn 17th Century needlelace and stumpwork techniques, all of which are totally new to me.
http://thistle-threads.blogspot.com/2014/02/needlelace.html

Thistle Threads also has done a class on the tiny beaded baskets that often were made to go in those fabulous caskets.  Here is a taste of stumpwork for one of those baskets.
http://ladysrepositorymuseum.blogspot.com/2014/02/making-up-beaded-stumpwork-figure.html

http://ladysrepositorymuseum.blogspot.com/2014/02/beaded-stumpwork-angel-continued.html

If you have a limited budget, get this book from Jacqui Carey for them.  It covers stitches popular in the 16th and 17th Centuries.  It astounds me what our stitching ancestors have to teach us if we listen.
http://www.careycompany.com/elizabethan-stitches.html

Can you imagine what Tony Minieri would do if he got his hands on this stuff?!!?!

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
@ Copyright Feb. 18, 2014 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Designing A Cabinet of Curiosities

The Cabinet of Curiosities class that Tricia Nguyen is doing fascinates me. I am not really into reproduction stitching personally, but once I realized that reproduction samplers were time machines, I started paying more attention to reproduction stitching in general.  You may not see the charm yourself, but once you read these, I guarantee you will find Cabinet of Curiosities interesting, too!
http://thistle-threads.com.mytempweb.com/blog/index.php/2013/01/cabinet-of-curiosities-design/

http://thistle-threads.com.mytempweb.com/blog/index.php/2013/01/dianes-imaginative-casket/

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com