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Pulled Thread Work Gallery:

Curvilinear Designs

and Related Forms

For distinction between pulled thread and drawn thread see compare. The initials LH indicate my original designs, worked by me.

Pulled Thread Work Pulled Thread Gallery-Geometric

Pulled Thread Tutorial Pulled Thread Tutorial 2 The White Sampler

DESIGNING and kinds of designs for pulled thread work:

Designing for this kind of lace is a matter of juxtaposing areas containing differing kinds of holes, and varying this with surface stitchery of differing textures. Also some traditional stitches produce puffy or ridge effects, and this, too, adds to the interest when used judiciously. You want dense areas, different kinds of holes, simple holes and complex holes, and usually some textured surface embroidery to give relief and variety. This form of lace is relatively easy to design for, and there are several approaches historically and in the modern age.

Curvilinear designs are on this web page, geometric designs on another.

Curvilinear Designs:

One approach for curvilinear design is to create fairly large simple shapes and fill them with the chosen stitch. Choose a surface embroidery stitch which has some width and texture to outline the filled area. Begin by working the wide outlining stitch around each area and then fill in the shapes with a pulled stitch, hiding the beginning and ending tails of the pulled stitches under the already stitched outline. It is also possible to start by filling the area with a pulled stitch and then work the outline stitch over the thread tails, covering and hiding them in the process (although this is harder to do neatly). In either case the outline stitching is not worked in tension. Irregular blobs also work as shapes to be filled.

pt 210 mb/ db/ LH

pt39 Pulled thread work made and designed by Lorelei Halley

630 48 db/ mb/ LH

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These four by Grace Lister: 676 670

675 674 She calls these last 2 "pulled thread samplers".

See her other work at: Grace Lister's photo page on stitchinfingers
http://stitchinfingers.ning.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=36ufhwlk95fcr

Here is a link to a modern work in the traditional manner, using pulled thread fillings and damask stitch fillings:

http://worksofhands.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/heiwa-handkerchief.jpg

http://worksofhands.wordpress.com/?s=Heiwa

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Curvilinear Design with background filled in:

A second approach, again with curvilinear design, is to make a motif in a simple shape and leave it unworked. The background is then filled with one pulled stitch. The unworked motifs may be outlined and some surface stitching can be done on the motif to lend some realism. For both of these forms one can make a simple silhouette shape of any plant or animal motif that you like, even starting with a photo and just using the outline of the figures -- the family dog or cat, a family photo, your house, etc.

47 mb/ db/ LH

pt 30 Pulled thread embroidery made by and designed by Lorelei Halley

pt28a pt28 mb/ db/ LH

April in Chicago. This piece is arranged like a Chinese painting. The bottom is what is right in front of you, the near objects, and the higher up the picture the further away. The bottom row of hills is the beginning of April. The hills are successive days and weeks. The top hill is the beginning of May.

Curvilinear Design outlined in double back stitch:

Some historic examples show motifs outlined in double back stitch (similar to shadow work) and then fill the shapes with complex satin stitch grounds (damask stitches), with pulled thread stitches in the ground areas of the design (outside the motifs). (See Fangel Winckler and the DMC Encyclopedia of Needlework for examples of this kind of design.) Mary Fry also has an example on page 177 in her book PULLED THREAD WORKBOOK, publ. 1978.

Modern Design with random background:

A more modern approach is to use the pulled stitches somewhat randomly as an irregular background to surface embroidery. Or one can fill in irregular areas, arranged randomly, with pulled stitches, and work scattered surface stitches as a foil to the pulled stitches.

The group below were all made by Margaret Bartlett and most use pulled stitches as part of the background. The first row all leave the major motif empty and fill in the background, part of which is pulled thread stitches. The last also uses pulled stitches inside the butterfly.

653 654 655 657

658 656 659

See her other work at: http://maggies-textiles.blogspot.com

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By Grace Lister. these two are very large and slow to load. Please be patient.

669 668

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Related Forms

Schwalm

A peasant or folk embroidery style from Germany using flower shapes and hearts as motifs, which are outlined in chain stitch and coral knot. Inside the motifs some fabric threads may or may not be cut (to accentuate the holes) and pulled thread stitches are worked on the remaining threads. Surface stitchery is added in the form of flowing lines and curlicues. The designs are charming and pretty, intended for household linen, and usually worked white on white. This style has gained in popularity recently and several books have been written about it in the last few years. It is a hybrid form, with drawn thread and pulled thread elements. Hessenstickerei is similar to Schwalm, but not exactly the same.

Naversom

Swedish birch bark embroidery is also a combination of drawn thread work with pulled thread work. One starts by removing threads both horizontally and vertically from the fabric, usually remove 2 leave 3, remove 2 leave 3 intact across the whole fabric. Then faggot and reverse faggot are worked to accentuate the holes and bind the remaining threads, and darning stitches are used to fill in some holes and recreate solid cloth. The designs are always geometric.

To see more pulled thread work see stitchinfingers pulled thread group. Various members have albums of Pulled thread work, or have given their pieces that tag (and a search can be done on that tag).

http://stitchinfingers.ning.com/group/pulledthreadwork

MargeB
http://maggies-textiles.blogspot.com

Grace Lister's photo page on stitchinfingers
http://stitchinfingers.ning.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=36ufhwlk95fcr

Stefania Bressan           Schwalm
http://www.angolostefania.it

Carolyne Foley's blog    She has a wide variety of different styles of drawn thread and pulled thread work, all very well made.
http://www.carorose.typepad.com   Look for tags "my embroidery" and "stitch explorer 2009".
http://carorose.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/drawn-pulled.html            drawn and pulled corner
http://carorose.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54ed11f4b883301156e3c324e970c-pi           the actual piece

Ann Clare mostly Schwalm   Her stitchinfingers photo page:
http://stitchinfingers.ning.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=00rudpdy3eom2

Pam                    a pulled thread sampler:
http://stitchinfingers.ning.com/photo/2105845:Photo:50345

Sue dulle           some pulled thread
Blog: http://sudukc.wordpress.com/
Website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sudukc/

D. Paula Banerji              some drawn thread, Hardanger, and Schwalm
http://stitchinfingers.ning.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=2b0755x0rg44q

Mishar                  pulled thread, Hardanger, and naversom
http://stitchinfingers.ning.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=0w90sqbiez1es

See the Nordic Needle website for books http://www.nordicneedle.com/

http://www.ogna.org/Gallery2/v/Members/Jay+Joanne/of_50_590_442h.jpg.html

http://www.annatextiles.ch/newslet/news06/n06_91.jpg

The German word for pulled thread is Ajour: http://www.karinsstickstube.de/

http://www.masterstitch.co.uk/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=90

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Rx2BOGCejPE/SdKhVX7pwLI/AAAAAAAABRE/AmY-DTWrcTY/s1600-h/eyelet+bookmark.jpg

A combination of drawn thread and pulled thread: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NKoGjY6rLGQ/SXzRDXEhKCI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/RXmg2WqICVo/s1600-h/Piece+1.JPG

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NKoGjY6rLGQ/SXOKcUAwqdI/AAAAAAAAAYU/z5XmknaM8SY/s1600-h/Sampler+JC1.JPG

http://www.fineneedleworks.com/crownofpearls.html

http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/ID/DresdenID.html

Other Schwalm and Naversom:

http://www.thehendricks.net/schwalm.htm

http://www.jmddesigns.co.nz/NAVHIS.HTM

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