Flosstube #6 Stories Behind the Needlework - Nuremberg Samplers 2 

They are! Interesting idea to make a cube

@@triciawilsonnguyen Or maybe the cubes could be little boxes, since we all love boxes! 🙂

Glad you like them!

Hi Angela - this sampler is the precursor to the wool Berlin work of the early 1800s. Makes you want to get one of the Berlin work patterns and redo it in silk!

Interesting, as I have done a lot of these stitches in needlepoint on a 22c canvas with floss and wool on larger count canvas. Now, it would be interesting on linen!

Wow - I loved the markets there. Such a pretty city

I know! That is how I feel about many pieces of embroidery - not too into it until I see it up close and then I realize the complexity and I am hooked

I am charting and everything!

Thanks Victoria - I am already charting!

These are petty cool and I bet some stitch up fast

We will have to find a way to make some projects glow like this!

You are so welcome!

Thank you for liking the videos, I have my designing hat on with the little pieces!

thank you!

I got it! Thinking about what to design

Glad you enjoyed the talk at GW - I was in it as well

I shall start cooking something up!

I will - have another one ready to go - that one I am very excited about as I go see Martha Edlin again

Great idea!

Welcome!

Thank you - I will put my thinking hat on for a project with the squares

If you go rooting around my store website - you can find out the secret as one of the first. :-)

That would be really fascinating to see things next to each other to see how cotton and silk compare

Starting to chart them!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you - working on it

Thank you Debra- i do too

Martha is coming... just a few weeks away

Thank you for voting on that - I am thinking of the lower right corner one as my favorite so far!

aren't they beautiful!

I will get my thinking hat on for the projects

Interesting idea for the graphing

Cheryl, I think many of the flame stitch purses are 18th century but I am currently going back to see how early the Germans were using these square patterns to determine a possible origin time. Back before 1680 already. On your other comment, I think we have to acknowledge that embroidery was right in the middle of highly learned women and not relegated to the reputation it sometimes has today in the general population.

I can see in person that the drawing of the fruit is there and the ribbons that she didn't fill in. It is in a more brown-reddish ink

@@triciawilsonnguyen yes when you held it up in the light you can just see a faint drawing looks like maybe a cherub/ figure and flowers and possibly a ribbon. It’s absolutely gorgeous. I’ve just been going through some of my embroidery and gold work books and I found one on Jane Austen inspired embroidery. Of course we all know her as a world famous author but she was also an extremely accomplished seamstress and embroiderer. She made many of her own clothes and items for friends and family and also some really beautiful pieces of embroidery. Sadly very few items have survived. It makes me sad when for hundreds of years women ( mostly) were taught to be embroiderers or seamstresses and now a days most people don’t know how to do a simple thing like sew a button onto a garment. When I was at primary school 50 years ago we were taught sewing and basic embroidery but nowadays it’s not considered important, it’s so sad.

Hi Kim, I think they are. I am away at the moment can someone was looking at macro pictures on my iPhone. If they aren’t when I look again in person - will post a comment