How to Get That Perfect Perm

Ever want that perfect perm for the person whose portrait you are stitching on needlepoint canvas?  Janet Brandt knows the perfect technique!
http://www.janetbrandt.com/2017/01/more-knotted-gimp.html

She explains a bit more here.
http://www.janetbrandt.com/2017/01/knotted-gimp.html

To learn more about silk gimp, check out Mary Corbet's posting here.
http://www.needlenthread.com/2012/10/thread-talk-silk-gimp.html

You can buy the silk gimp Janet used here.  Smaller quantities are also available at the shop (second link below).
http://thistle-threads.myshopify.com/products/silk-gimp

http://thistle-threads.myshopify.com

Fancy striped silk gimp is also available in two colors, three shades of each.  Hey! No twisting of two colors together!
http://thistle-threads.myshopify.com/products/striped-silk-gimp

Painters Threads has an overdyed rayon gimp that you could substitute for Thistle Threads' silk gimp.
http://shop.threadnut.com/Gimpe-Rayon-10m-skein_c17.htm

Painters Threads also has something called Single Loop Rayon Trim which is their rayon gimp twisted.  No twisting or knotting needed!  Just couch it going every which way for a slightly curlier version of Janet's hair.
http://shop.threadnut.com/Single-Loop-Rayon-Trim_c41.htm

Time to try some of this stuff for hair, right?


Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
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© Copyright January 30, 2017 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Silk Gimp (OR, Jane Falls in Love--Again) UPDATED

Mary Corbet has written about a new thread--silk gimp.  As I have never seen a silk thread I don't love, of course I am enthralled by the possibilities!
http://www.needlenthread.com/2012/10/thread-talk-silk-gimp.html

It's not going to be easy to find, but it is possible to hunt down using the links in the article above.  I suspect silk gimp is probably made by Access Commodities, if that helps you narrow your search.  It isn't on their website, however.
http://www.accesscommodities.com/products

Pipers Silks in England also advertises silk gimp.
http://www.pipers-silks.com/ProductInformation/SilkGimp.htm

UPDATE:  Mary shows off another type of silk gimp.
http://www.needlenthread.com/2012/11/thread-talk-silk-gimp-vs-silk-gimp.html

Piper's Silk Gimp
http://www.needlenthread.com/2012/11/playing-around-with-pipers-silk-gimp.html

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Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com